Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

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

Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.

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

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

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.

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.