“I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.”

I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.

The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

People have paid for content. They always have.

I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

First the grub, then the morals.

An author’s first duty is to let down his country.

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that’s inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

First the pork chops, then morality

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.