"Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic"

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

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum"

"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"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"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"

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"

"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"

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"