No matter what your sexual preference or gender, no one likes a man who is fussy about his looks. You can spend as much time as you want looking good. But don't do it in public.

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.

The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Don't promise me forever, just love me day by day.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

Anything can happen and it probably will.

I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.