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“Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.”
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“Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?”
Source : John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.49, Wings Press
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“I haven't had a drink for 24 and a half years, so I don't live the kind of life anymore where I literally take mind altering substances, or do things in which I am able to forgo reality. I have the potential to be an enormously repressed individual in the guise of a freewheeling spirit.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Is Art worth dying for? Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.”
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“Im obsessed with socks. I even wear them to bed!”
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“Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.”
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“True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.”
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“Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.”
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“Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.”
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“From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.”
