Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.