We booked $21 million of advertising against that down payment in the first 12 days of selling, ... All of a sudden, the speculation that we overpaid went away.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity

Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease.

In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library of Congress, that 'Coca-Cola has become an integral part of people's lives by helping to tell these stories,' it is perhaps not surprising that people have trouble teaching and receiving a novel as complex and flawed as Huck Finn, but it is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us.

Our concern in Montreal is mainly with the advertising. The actual cars are pretty good.