A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store fouls up their bills.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

I'd like to put together a think tank of people - economists, futurists, city planners, a few department-store people - to discuss reinventing the department store.