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

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

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

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

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 world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.