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

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.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

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.

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

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.