In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

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?