It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

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

It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.

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

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

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.