The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

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.

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

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

On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.