"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."

"Television: chewing gum for the eyes."

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

"Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."

"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."

"Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work."

"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."

"MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's."

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."

"[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."