By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

There's an ad for every vice. That's advice.

If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.