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

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

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

"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."

"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."

"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."

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

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."

"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."

"[Television is] the triumph of machine over people."