I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

See the cat? See the cradle?

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

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

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.