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

I think America, really, is over.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

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.

The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling.

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.