Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.