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

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

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.

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.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

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.