I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

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.

Wer lügt, hat die Wahrheit immerhin gedacht.

We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry.

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.

I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

Sigma Chi, more than anything else, got me involved with the people who knew how to study, and they helped me. I learned from them. The Norman Shield is still quite applicable now.