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Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.

TV is what sells your product.

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it.

I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.