One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Harold Wallace Ross was an American journalist who founded The New Yorker magazine and served as editor-in-chief of the publication from its inception until his death.
