Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.