"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."

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

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

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

"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."

"MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's."

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

"[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."

"Television has raised writing to a new low."