The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

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.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

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

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.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.