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

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

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.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.

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