In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love..

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work..

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 ….

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….

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….

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….

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

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 think America, really, is over..

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

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and g….

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is..

The worse the author, the more he is known..

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

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 ….

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..

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..

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….

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

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