One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. 15 August 1966

One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs. 15 August 1966

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.