“Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?”

“When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye and, and the rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.”

“You can't tell the audience — well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience — that anything they're watching doesn't matter.”

“The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.”

“When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.”

“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.”