Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then….

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delv….

If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with that, I don't give….

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest..

Seeing does not always believe..

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer..

Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar..

But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good que….

The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity,….

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end i….

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle groun….

I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations and they would not allow you….

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The youn….

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully..

I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it..

I've never planned ahead.I just sort of go through life checking the menu of three meals that day. I never worry about tomorrow. It's only since I've….

Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up f….

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being..

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the….

I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves ….

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself..