So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.