Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

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

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.

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.

As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence.