Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.