Terry Southern — American Writer born on May 01, 1924, died on October 29, 1995

Terry Southern was an American author, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. In the 1980s he wrote for Saturday Night Live and lectured on screenwriting at several universities in New York... (wikipedia)

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.
An angel has no memory.
I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.