“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.""What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”

“What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”

“I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.”

“Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.”

“There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books.I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is.I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.”

“He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.”

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”