It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle!

If there's a heaven, I would probably go. I've actually a very nice person.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

History is the heart of humanity.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Nouvelle cuisine roughly translated means "I can't believe I spent ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry."

One of my favorite things to do is go running early in the morning when everyone in my house is still sleeping. I throw on my iPod, and it's, like, my time.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.