The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.

I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.