Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete
...the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular and private hell.
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.
The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.
Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown.
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.
He's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.
Never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
You gotta BELIEVE, Bolie!
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
Beasley was a little man whose face looked like an X ray of an ulcer.
Formerly, a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July, but throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore a most important man.
Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone.
The crowd slowly dispersed in soft, whispering groups, voices muted by the fascination of death that all men carry with them in small pockets deep inside them.
