Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.