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.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

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.

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.

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.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.