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.

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.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

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.

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.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren read more

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still read more

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for read more

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.

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.