The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

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.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

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

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

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.