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If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant ... then you're in deep trouble.

A basic "must" for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

You unlock the door with the key of imagination.

Infinitely more taboos, on television.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown.

There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.

I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.

Seeing does not always believe.

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

He's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.

Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.

I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

You gotta BELIEVE, Bolie!

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone.

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

Beasley was a little man whose face looked like an X ray of an ulcer.

Bias and prejudice make me angry ... more than anything.

Imagination ... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Hollywood's a great place to live ... if you're a grapefruit.

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes.

I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it.

Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

A place . . . a time . . . where a man can live his life full measure.

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.