"Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low"

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

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"

"What a nice night for an evening"

"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone"

"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"

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night"

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day"