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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

It’s all just ones and zeroes no matter where you go in the universe.

I do not like selfish appreciationbecause it does not say nor speakinto my silence.Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion Of Blue Circle

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

I want you to know you're in my heart... growing into a beautiful garden.

I am the slime oozing out from your TV set. You will obey me while I lead you, and eat the garbage while I feed you.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.