Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.