Terry Southern

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.

I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.