It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

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.

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people.

Rock of Ages cleft for me Let me hide myself in thee.

For love is as strong as death.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

Everyone thought that the Spurs would run through us and everyone is talking about the Spurs vs. the Suns in the conference finals. This team has a lot of heart and a lot of pride.

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.