There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with 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.

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

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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.