"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."

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

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

"The truth is more important than the facts."

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

"Television enables you to be entertained in your home 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."

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

"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."

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

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