I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.

Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.