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.

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

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

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

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.

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

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

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.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

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 Sun can rise anytime in your dreams. And there night may fall anytime as well.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

This idea of having back-up plans is ingrained into us to make us believe that that's the smart thing to do.

Conflict is easy because weve all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.

It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.