I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.

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.

Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.

You can radically alter the worth of your life when you develop inner voices that serve and support your true purpose.

Every year I volunteer at a hospital on Thanksgiving, deep-frying turkeys in the children's burn unit. I do it just to see the looks on their little "faces."

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

Character comes before scholarship.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

They are cutting medicare

You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility.