Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

If you have a lemon; make lemonade.

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: "You have to fight fire with fire" so that I could reply, "That's funny-I always use water."

I don't know how to speak to everybody, only to somebody.

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, "Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person," or "I remember what that day felt like."

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.

You made me feel less alone; you made me feel not quite so deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.