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.

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

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

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.