I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

- Terry Southern

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless …

- Terry Southern

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

- Terry Southern

I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.

- Terry Southern

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

- Terry Southern

I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people t…

- Terry Southern

An angel has no memory.

- Terry Southern

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

- Terry Southern

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

- Terry Southern