“deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.”

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 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?

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.

I’m not sure I’ll ever be famous by anyone’s definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life’s work.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it’s just continuous overload.

It is the definition of the word ‘object’ which destroys all religions.

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

I have a definition of success.

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…