I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?

This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

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

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.