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

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

I think America, really, is over.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

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

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 don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.