For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.