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

On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.