"Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature"

"Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours"

"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft"

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens"

"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences"