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.

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.

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.

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.

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.