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

"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."

"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."

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

"Freedom is from within."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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