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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.