I wish to Christ that I had written a Stagecoach drama starring John Wayne instead. - Rod Serling

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

No audience likes a writer's opinion thrust down their gullet as simply a tract. It has to be dramatized and made acceptably palatable within a dramatic form.