People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

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.

If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

Your dad and I have been talking.”“You need to stop that. The marriage will last longer.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

BTW, the roach's name is Max (courtesy of Brianna, "because of I had a puppy, I'd name him Max").

Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.