Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

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

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed