The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.