If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

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.

It is unpardonable for you to leave this world without recording some greatness in your account.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

Show the world the man you think you are, and I will show the world the man you really are...

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.

The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.