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

Artists 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.

It 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?

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

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

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.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!