There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.

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.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

They wanted to help me with my pain.

Of everythingI have ever endured, YOUareMy Favourite Tragedy.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

I don't like disrespecting other teams.

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.