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.
Paddy ChayefskyThe worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
Paddy ChayefskyArtists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
Paddy ChayefskyHoward Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
Paddy ChayefskyIt is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
Paddy Chayefsky