Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

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, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.