Is There No End To This Escalation

The New York Voice Reflects Its Diversity, Its Foreignness, And, Inevitably, The Sense Of Superiority New Yorkers Feel Or Come To Feel. It Says, Without Saying, We Know.

In Our Society Those Who Are In Reality Superior In Intelligence Can Be Accepted By Their Fellows Only If They Pretend They Are Not.

A Musical Audience Is At Best Uninspiring, At Worst Definitely Drab. ... Respectability Hangs Like A Pall Over The Orchestra And The Boxes; A Sort Of Sterile Sobriety Ill-fitted To The Passionate Geometry Of Music.

The Ultimate Cynicism Is To Suspend Judgment So That You Are Not Judged.

If American Men Are Obsessed With Money, American Women Are Obsessed With Weight. The Men Talk Of Gain, The Women Talk Of Loss, And I Do Not Know Which Talk Is The More Boring.