The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing.

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

Courage has no age.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

I didn't go to the special screening on a spaceship where everybody goes to have their special screenings...Everybody knows that's what happens in Hollywood.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.