"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television."