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

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.

Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

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

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

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.