“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.”

“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.”

“I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”

“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.”

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.”