“Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?”

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. … To the librarian, they’re a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they’re a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they’re a big beautiful exaltation of larks … all lovely and loose and jingly.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.

It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.

Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.

When I put something into motion

Life is at its best when love, money, and creativity are growing in harmony.

the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.

I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.