A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.