The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.