One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

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.

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

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

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.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

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