Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.