I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten 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.'

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.

Too late Bella. Now, it's too late. Show me.

Jesus died on the cross not only so I wouldn't have to go to hell, but also to give me an abundant life on this Earth.

If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.

And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

If you cannot love yourself, you have no chance to love another person.

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

Life is a huge privilege and opportunity. God has trusted you with gifts and abilities, which he wants you to use.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.