“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.”

“In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.”

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

“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”

“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.”

“There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.”

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