You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

A poor man is shunned by all his relatives - how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found