I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?