I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.

Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will be, without a shadow of a doubt, the single greatest film of all time about Charles Manson being the savior to all humanity in the year 3069.

Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I like to wear beautiful clothes, but I don't have that many.

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.