The worse the author, the more he is known.

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.

I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling.

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.

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.