Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.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

Women are always being asked when they're going to have children. It's a question they're asking even more often.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

To me, NOTHING is 'new'.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am.

You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.

We each have the kind of children we deserve.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.