The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manne….

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town..

Rome wasn't built in a day..

How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being….

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way..

God damn it, you've got to be kind..

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time….

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears..

All this happened, more or less..

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.

. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a con….

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours..

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God..

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did..

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

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way ….

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous..

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors..

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do..

I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and the….

If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited t….