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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 worse the author, the more he is known.