Someone Who Gossips Well Has A Reputation

This Is, I Think, Very Much The Age Of Anxiety, The Age Of The Neurosis, Because Along With So Much That Weighs On Our Minds There Is Perhaps Even More That Grates On Our Nerves.

It Is One Of The Sublime Provincialities Of New York That Its Inhabitants Lap Up Trivial Gossip About Essential Nobodies They've Never Set Eyes On, While Continuing To Boast That They Could Live Somewhere For Twenty Years Without So Much As Exchanging Pleasantries With Their Neighbors Across The Hall.

Temperament, Like Liberty, Is Important Despite How Many Crimes Are Committed In Its Name.

With Intellectuals, Moral Thought Is Often Less A Tonic That Quickens Ethical Action Than A Narcotic That Deadens It.

The American Way Is So Restlessly Creative As To Be Essentially Destructive; The American Way Is To Carry Common Sense Itself Almost To The Point Of Madness.