I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line that I've written. But just t….

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever st….

Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure..

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else..

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful..

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think..

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes..

Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure. And the wedding was a radiant event and I enjoyed it. I was afraid I'd cry. I'm give….

When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and ….

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it..

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible..

There's a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He's the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that he doesn'….

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing ….

I'm frequently surprised, sometimes bugged off, and sometimes happy, depending on the actor. It's a fact of life that just as often as not an actor c….

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow..

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that….

All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because the….

Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent….

How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?.

A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they crawl on hands and k….

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy..