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.

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

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.

I think America, really, is over.

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.

The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling.