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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.