I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.