I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.

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.

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.

For me, there is only love and fear.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.