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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.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.

I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.

Television is intensely personal.