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.

I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.

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

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

The worse the author, the more he is known.

New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.

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.