Terry Southern

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

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.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.