Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.