How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.

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.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.

We should all learn to take things easily - other people's things.

Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.