We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

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

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.

Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

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

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

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