I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

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.

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

They are a very tough opponent, and they took us the first game. So we want our revenge, and we are going to go right back after them hard. We are really looking forward to getting after them.

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

Father forgive us, for we do not what we know.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?” What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.