An underground hit didn't make any money and it cost a dollar to get in.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

There but for the grace of God go I.

You don’t know who you are until you know God and you don’t know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.

Time at length becomes justice.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

I have long had a theory Bill Clinton-Hillary Clinton relationship. Not how they met, not that story, not the courtship or any of that. But how it happened that this once-in-a-lifetime woman.

Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.