If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.