The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.