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

The worse the author, the more he is known.

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.

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

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.

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.

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