"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."

"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

"Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

"Freedom is from within."

"Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done."

"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."

"Television has raised writing to a new low."

"I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids."