"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."

"Television: chewing gum for the eyes."

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

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

"Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

"Freedom is from within."

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

"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."

"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 has raised writing to a new low."