As a kid I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid you get attached to these characters.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

In the age of television image becomes more important than substance.

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre everything is so advertised so trailed that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

I hate to mention age but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

In the television age the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.