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

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.

Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.

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.

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

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

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.