Quotes About Author

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I think humor is.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

Everyone's always interested in a dark theme, especially when there's humor connected to it. It seems like that helps, if that's an integral and organic part of the whole story.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite

A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.

Nothing builds confidence like live ammo.

I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

Every dude in here has had a fantasy about Jessica Simpson. Here's mine: Jessica, hold your sister Ashlee so I can kick her in the throat.

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

No periods. If you sneeze, the carpet's ruined.

I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.

Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"