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.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

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

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

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.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

Licorice is the liver of candy.

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.

Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?

Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

Honestly I prefer dressing for comfort rather than style, so whatever is comfortable and looks decent, that'll do.

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.

Anything you undertake will be possible to accomplish.

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

People are supposed to be loyal to the country above [Donald's Trump] family.