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

"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."

"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."

"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 has raised writing to a new low."

"Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."

"I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids."

"All television is children's television."