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

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

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

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 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.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

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.