“Sophistication is upscale conformity.”
“She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!”
“Words like lucky and advantages we knew, even at our young age, were upscale euphemisms for not poor, not the son of a drunk and, later, not the son of a suicidal mother.”
“Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.”
“I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated! (Daisy)”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”