Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

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.

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

I'm never going again on Met Gala. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.

I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.

I would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.