We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. [Copenhagen]

Much of the tablecloth was a series of grey smudges outlined in a large, irregular patch of yellow that looked distressingly like a urine stain.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

For forty years or so this was the world headquarters of conspicuous consumption.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become…

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissanc…