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

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.

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

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.

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.

Only poor people know the true meanings to feelings.

For believers, there is much more to existence than simply passing out of one world and into another.

If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

There is no retracing our steps.

Who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs?" I said, "Come on then, they are down here." He said, "Tallulah, the answer to who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs is... me!!!!

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.