A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.