All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today.… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
“I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks' time because of poor ratings. Since this show is the only thing I had going for me in my life, I've decided to kill myself. I'm going to blow my brains out right on this program a week from today. So… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share
“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share
Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers,… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
