A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

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

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.

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

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

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.