"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."

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."

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

"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."

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

"Television has raised writing to a new low."