Fred Allen

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?”