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

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

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 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.

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.