The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!