I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

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.

The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.