The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.