“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of peop...” — T. S. Eliot Quote

“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”

“The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.”

“There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.”

“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'”

“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”

“You are the music while the music lasts.”

“Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'”

“I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!”

“Stupid to think that our wine will never turn.”

“The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”

“My mother... would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”

“Time is a game”