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

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

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.

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

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

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