After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

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

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.