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Seeing does not always believe.
All the Dachaus must remain standing.
Infinitely more taboos, on television.
I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.
You unlock the door with the key of imagination.
Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.
I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.
Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.
Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.
Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.
If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.
Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.
for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.
a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.
There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.
Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.
I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.
Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.
I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it.
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.
I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.
If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.
I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.
I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.
(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.
I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.
I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.
Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.