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

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

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

"The truth is more important than the facts."

"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."

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

"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."