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

If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.

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.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.