Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Grace rides inside the waves.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I just never felt like I belonged anywhere. I always had a stick with a little knapsack attached.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.