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.

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.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

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 think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.