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.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

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

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.

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

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.