She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.