Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.

You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet named Earth. Calls himself 'Samuel Conrad'. And he will remain here in his cage with the running water and the electricity and the central heat- as long as he lives. Samuel Conrad has found the Twilight Zone.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.