The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

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

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

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.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

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.