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.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

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.

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

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.

You can change yourself

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Your true positive purpose in life is your best companion on earth.

True love doesn't demand..It only loves.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

I swam in high school.

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?