We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.