The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.

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

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

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

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.