Paddy Chayefsky

“I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!”

“Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.”

“Artists are the only people in the society who can tell that society the truth about itself.”

“We're in the boredom-killing business.”

“You are television incarnate, Diana: indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy.”

“There is only one primal force in the world, and that is the primal force of the tube, the cathode-ray tube, the television.”

“The whole world is becoming a shabby, plastic, imitation corner.”

“We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night... We're all you know.”

“Life is a grotesque practical joke. And it's at its worst when you're dying.”

“I'm a lonely man, and a lonely man is a lonesome thing.”

“It is the brutal bottom line of life in the twentieth century. That is what the world is today. And that is what you are.”

“He wants to die. He has been asking to die for a month. All he does is lie there and stare at the ceiling.”

“The American people are turning into morons.”