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.

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

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

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

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

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