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

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

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

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.