 A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. |
| Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed. |
| I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. |
| Nothing is really real unless it happens on television. |
| The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. |
| A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. |
| We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. |
| The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. |
| The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. |
| Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Topics: Education |
| The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. |
| Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. |
| An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service. |
| The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. |
| Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. |
| A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. |
| Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. |
| We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. |
| As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. |
| We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. |
