For tens of millions of people television has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, ins…

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

There's a leveling homogeneity in America today created by television. Each day it passes over the vast land mass, over the states nudging each other like the …

I made the mistake of watching 'A.I.' on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.

I grew up as a TV baby, with my TV babysitter, up until I was about 10. Then my mother just ripped the thing out of the wall and put it in a closet, and we did…