39 Quotes by Terry Southern

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

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage.

I like to work at night.

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

An angel has no memory.

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

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.