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

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Until you die .. it's all life.

I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.