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

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."

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

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

"Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

"Freedom is from within."

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

"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident."

"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."

"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."

"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."

"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."