One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.