TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.