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 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.

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

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

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

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

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.