I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.

Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Because I'm in advertising, not electricity!

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.

Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .

Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

My favorite movie of all time is 'Home Alone 3.'

I like to think of myself as the middleman between Fred Allen and Henny Youngman.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.