I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the A….

The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are ….

As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which ….

Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison….

Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more po….

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television..

New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books th….

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people i….

I've never been in fashion. Not at all..

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, mea….

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics..

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that..

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental..

Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks hol….

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them,….

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television..

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words..

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists..

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison..

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past..

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud..