"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

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

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy"

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer"

"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"

"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"