In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

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.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

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.

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.

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

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