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.

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

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

I think America, really, is over.

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.

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.