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….

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!.

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

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 ….

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest..

All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get ki….

Television will do anything for a rating... anything!.

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park..

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

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

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

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

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of busi….

I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or….

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

Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-….

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is t….

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero..

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