If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

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

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.