The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick

When you actually get successful, if you became a recognized director, people would let you come up with an idea for a video and they would let you do it.