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.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

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.

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.

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

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

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.