"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."

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

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

"Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done."

"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."

"Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know."

"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."

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