Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison. Now, if you like poison, why shouldn't you have it? But don't try to pretend that it's innocuous.

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

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

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.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.