True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

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.

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.

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.

We don’t have time, we just have a moment in time.

You are responsibility of your life.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

We don't get what we deserve. We get what we BELIEVE we deserve.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

High School Is Life’s Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.