Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end.

It's never better to make somebody poorer, even if they're rich.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

That which is imagined can never be lost.

Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.

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

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.