If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.
Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
Television will do anything for a rating. . . anything!
It'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.
Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.
The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!
When consciousness has awakened it is not something sensational or spectacular. It's simply a reality as natural as the one of a tree that has growth slowly and developed without starts or sensational stuffs. Nature is Nature.
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.