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

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

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.

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

I think America, really, is over.

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.

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.