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.

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

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

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

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

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

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

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

...We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.'We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials.

One who is seeking the truth sooner or later finds a woman.

The satisfaction of winning/being a winner, comes with the dissatisfaction of seing losers

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who come into a room and say "Here I am!" and those who come in and say "Oh there you are."

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

We need to mock false gods publicly.

It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.