The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

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

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

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

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

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

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.

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

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

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

No one enjoys being equal.