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

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.

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

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

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.

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