It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.

I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on.

I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.