Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

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

All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.