It's a wonderful job for people who have never had a nervous breakdown but always wanted one. - Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

I don't think you could say now that ABC is crasser than the other two networks. But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. It becomes an ever-descending spiral.

You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.