Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me.