I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

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 good times are killing me

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.

I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.