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

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

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.

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

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

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.