01UndatedWe've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!Paddy Chayefsky / quote ↗
02UndatedOh, there are no living poets, Miss Van Damn. We're not entirely sure there ever were. They've found some shreds of sonnets in England and, embedded in a chalk wall of a cave in France, some yet undetermined thing which might be the legendary inward eye. But all evidence, such as it is, suggests that, if there ever were poets, they were all burned into extinction during the interglacial period of despair.Paddy Chayefsky / quote ↗
03UndatedI'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of course, and I definitely do not proselytize. Homosexuality is, to me, an inner satisfaction, a pride in a heritage of greatness. To marry a woman would be an inadmissible rejection of my identity.Paddy Chayefsky / quote ↗
04UndatedTelevision is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus a carnival a travelling troupe of acrobats storytellers dancers singers jugglers sideshow freaks lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.Paddy Chayefsky / quote ↗
05UndatedIt's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.Paddy Chayefsky / quote ↗
07UndatedYou British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.Paddy Chayefsky / quote ↗
08UndatedArtists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.Paddy Chayefsky / quote ↗
