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

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

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

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

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.

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

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.