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.

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.

Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison. Now, if you like poison, why shouldn't you have it? But don't try to pretend that it's innocuous.

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

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

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