We invent what we love and what we fear.

But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

If you asked me one day, I might say, "Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious." If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, "No."

In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.

If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.