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.

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

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, and they pass them on.

The worse the author, the more he is known.

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.

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

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