Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

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

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

Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

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.

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.