The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.

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.

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

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

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

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