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.

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

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

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.

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