"The truth is more important than the facts."

"Television: chewing gum for the eyes."

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

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

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

"Freedom is from within."

"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."

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."

"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 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."

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