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.

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.'

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.

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.

No one can give you freedom

Time heals nothing

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.

When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head!

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.

Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes