I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.