The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
On his living at a Zen center, as quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)
Women Know Everything! http://books.google.com/books?id=nTKgWEBhBeoC&pg=PA429&lpg=PA429&dq=There+are+days+when+any+electrical+appliance+in+the+house,+including+the+vacuum+cleaner,+offers+more+entertainment+than+the+TV+set.&source=web&ots=OgBpFo7CWB&sig=ngxgVw4am7DRU0wMlhh9DCs3N7k&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result by Karen Weekes, published by Quirk Books, 2007
“Life gets higher ratings than TV.”
http://www.paulglover.org/greenpresident.html (Green Party presidential manifesto), January 2009.
quoted in "Marshall McLuhan, Author, Dies; Declared 'Medium Is the Message'" by Alden Whitman, The New York Times, January 1, 1981
1980s
“People who get eyeball arthritis see only what they're supposed to see, like that TV screen.”
"Hunter Lake", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2003, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction
"A liberal pundit soars to a prominent perch," Boston Globe (September 8, 2008)
“It's hard to get burned out on doing a TV show.”
2000s
Source: Chicago, Vol. 57, Nr, 1-4 (2008), p. 28
“The TV business is uglier than most things.”
Originally published in the San Francisco Examiner (4 November 1985), this is often quoted as concluding with the statement "There's also a negative side." Research by David Emery, in Your Guide to Urban Legends http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dubiousquotes/a/hunter_thompson_2.htm indicates that these words, however were not included by Thompson himself in the published version.
1980s, Generation of Swine (1988)
Context: The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. ”
