everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

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.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

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