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.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

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.

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.

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.

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