“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”
“That makes it worse! Worse and better!”
“Function? Why function? Who needs more functioning human beings? It's really quite astounding, if you ask me, the sheer quantity of normal in the world today. I think that's the real horror of modern life.”
“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”
“…praise does not make anything better or worse.”
“The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.”