Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.

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 times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain.

Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.Style is King, 2008.

You may reach the tree top, and seem to touch the sky, but know that the tree your resting on, is grounded and rooted in the soil, deep in the earth.

My body gets weak without truth.

I think the wealthiest people in America are doing phenomenally well, 52 percent of all new income generated today goes to the top 1 percent.

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.

You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.