All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers.

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.