Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

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