"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them"

"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life"

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

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small"

"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind"

"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"

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean"

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

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

"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here"