You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

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

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

You develop a style from writing a lot.