“the only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.”

“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness-...”

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could ...”