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.

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

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, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

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

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.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.