It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.