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

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

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.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.