If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

The spirit should never grow old.

Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.