This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

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

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.