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

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.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

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

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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