"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."

"Television: chewing gum for the eyes."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"[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 has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."

"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."