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 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.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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.

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.