The worse the author, the more he is known.

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.

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

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

Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.

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.