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

"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."

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."

"The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television."