Louis Auchincloss

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.