By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will read more

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, read more

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.

Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is read more

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 has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

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

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

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

Television is a corporate vulgarity.