"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"[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 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."