The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.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

There is a beautiful village in every country.

It was hope, dying unsurprised.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

People have good and bad days.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

A lot of times people will say, 'Well, gosh, you're really good; you should try acting!' And I say, 'Come on! I'm thesping my little guts out over here.'

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.

Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.