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

"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."

"The truth is more important than the facts."

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

"Freedom is from within."

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

"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."

"Television has raised writing to a new low."

"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."