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

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

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.

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

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.