No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

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

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.

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.