“Canned music is like audible wallpaper.”

“Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.”

“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”

“Canned music is like audible wallpaper.”

“New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.”

“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”

“America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.”