The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

If the vision is there, the means will follow.

You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.

To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.

The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

Omygod, I haven’t got years. I’ll have to hide in the Bat Cave.” “Once you go to the Bat Cave it’s forever, babe.” Eeek.

He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.

They didn't recognize me," I repeat. He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm. "It is because they have never seen you," he says. "I would recognize you anywhere.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.