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

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you..

Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission..

The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing….

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..

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

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity..

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness..

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

Sure, I'd love to help you out...now, which way did you come in?.

If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative..

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

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

Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?.

And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!.

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

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..

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

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

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….

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….