I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

Today, one must pay for a world where there is nothing to buy.

Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?"

"If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try.

La publicidad es el único trabajo en el que te pagan por hacer las cosas peor de lo que puedes hacerlas. Cuando presentas una idea genial y el anunciante desea estropearla, concéntrate en pensar en tu sueldo, y, en treinta segundos de cronómetro, endósale una mierda siguiendo su dictado y añádele unas palmeras en el story-board para salir a rodar el spot durante una semana en Miami o Ciudad del Cabo.

Emergency dance party--go away.