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.

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

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

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.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

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

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