I Feel That My Characters All Have

I Feel That My Characters All Have Some Part Of My Character. I Feel That They're All Me In Some Way, Certainly Not In Individuality, But They All Bear Elements Of What I Feel.

The Artist Is The Lowest Form Of Life On The Rung Of The Ladder. The Publishers Are Usually Businessmen Who Deal With Businessmen. They Deal With Promotional People. They Deal With Financial People. They Deal With Accountants. They Deal With People Who Work On Higher Levels. They Deal With Tax People, But Have Absolutely No Interest In Artists, In Individual Artists, Especially Very Young Artists.

I Didn't Save My Money For A Lawyer. I Was A Very Young Man, And Saved My Money For Having A Good Time.

I Won't Do Anything Bad, And I Resent Very Deeply Bad People Who Haven't Got The Ability, Who Try To Interfere With The Kind Of Work I'm Trying To Do Because Nobody's Going To Benefit From It.

My Purpose Was What My Father's Purpose Was - To Make A Living And To Have A Family. I Was Going To Do The Right Thing. My Dream To Me Was To Have Money To Support It And To Live In The Kind Of House I Liked.