47 Quotes by Larry Gelbart

A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

Your style is formed by what you can't do.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.

I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.