My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

—Peter De Vries

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

—Peter De Vries

I don't think that the comic and the serious can be separated in talking about human reality, any more than you can separate hydrogen and oxygen and still be talking about water.

—Peter De Vries

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

—Peter De Vries

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

—Peter De Vries

Television is for appearing on—not for looking at.

—Noel Coward

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

—Marvin Minsky

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

—Kurt Vonnegut

Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.

—Gallagher

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.

—Fred Allen