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

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

"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."

"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."

"Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work."

"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."

"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."

"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."