I’ve always believed writing ads is the second most profitable form of writing. The first is ransom notes…

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

A brand is nothing but an expression of the consumer’s loyalty and trust.

In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

We struggle in life because our inner monologue prays....my will be done.

I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.