bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP. only he didn't say "doggone.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

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

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.