"I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because
the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb.
Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be
extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests
and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble
interests." -- David Foster Wallace, from his article E
Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction, published in the
Review of Contemporary Fiction in 1993.