Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
The theater has been called the pulse of the people.
In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed d...
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show wou...
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in...
Leyner's fiction is, in this regard, an eloquent reply to Gilder's prediction that our TV-culture problems can be resolved by the dismantling of images into discrete chunks we can recombine as we fanc...
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Calvin:It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?Television: ...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
My older brother Joel became an art teacher my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn't leave, so I finally had to pretend to get sick to my stomach just to get...
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock...