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

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.

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.

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.

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

The worse the author, the more he is known.

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.