I never thought I had more fun when I was young than kids are having today. I think they have just as much fun. It's a different way to have fun.

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.

You made a choice—a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing.

it’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fall

Fashion is a reflection of our times. Fashion can tell you everything that's going on in the world with a strong fashion image.

Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.