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

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.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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

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.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

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