I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don't think I'm mean. I am interested in what's next.

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 terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

My heart is a harness of nothing, deflated balloon, and a place of loss.

Tears are valuable, but when they touch the ground they are no more different than urine.

I live a normal life.

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?