If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

You only live once and, usually, not even then.

I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.