Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

Even the ugliest person's cellulite is more attractive than the most beautiful supermodel's lower intestine.' I'd put that on a T-shirt but probably Mark Twain already said it.

....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.

Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. [Justice pleases few in their own house.]

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.