"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."

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

"Television: chewing gum for the eyes."

"Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

"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."

"Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know."

"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 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."

"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."