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

"Television: chewing gum for the eyes."

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

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

"Freedom is from within."

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."

"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."

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

"[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."

"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."