There is now more pressure on consumers than there has ever been and it is not sustainable.

The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.

If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden.

There are three things: to walk, to see, and to see what you see.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

There is no wisdom save in truth.

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.