Who said “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”?

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”

“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”

“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”

“There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.”

“Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.”

“It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

“The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.”

“In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.”