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.

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

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

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.

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.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

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