One of the most difficult tasks in this world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Veni, vidi, Visa: I came, I saw, I bought.

The sign said 'Eight Items or Less' so I changed my name to Less.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.