"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."

"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."

"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."