“Jokes are grievances.”
“The real news is bad news.”
“Money is a poor man's credit card.”
“Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.”
“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
“Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.”
“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.”
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.”
“The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.”
“A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.”
“The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.”
“Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.”
“The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.”
“It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.”
“It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.”
“The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.”
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
“Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.”
“Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.”
“The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.”
“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”
“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”
“The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten by the wolf.”
“For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.”
“Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.”
“Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.”
“Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.”
“Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.”
“When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.”