To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.

The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific.

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.