A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

It's smart to be thrifty.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!