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.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

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.