Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.