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.

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

I think America, really, is over.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

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

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.