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

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

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 ain't got it.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

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

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