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.

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.

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

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.

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

The worse the author, the more he is known.