Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

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.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

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.

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

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.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.