I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

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.

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

I think America, really, is over.

New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.