We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate.

But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.

The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.