Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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.

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

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

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.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

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.