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 in history.

I think America, really, is over.

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

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.

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

Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.

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 get more.