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.

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.

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.

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.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

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.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.