The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native t….

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly..

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

Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste..

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..

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..

I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high..

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, misguid….

I'm sorry, I'm a little busy. Can i ignore you later?.

Your village just called. They're missing an idiot..

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people..

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly….

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century..

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….

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the un….

I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works..

Camouflage is a game we all like to play.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicat….

Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own..

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