"There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man"

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time"

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

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"

"I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it"

"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"

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice"