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.

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 bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

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.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

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