Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.

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

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

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

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.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.