“They all stared at the television. Twenty male shapeshifters quietly watching "The Howling.”

“Every hour of television that a person watches after the age of twenty-five, the researchers concluded, potentially snips twenty-two minutes off of the viewer's life span.”

“For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.”

“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.”

“All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time reading books, or watching television. It was safe. Nobody ever was hurt or teased or looked stupid while reading books or watching television.”

“She found that obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren’t obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There was no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.”