When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

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.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

If this is your idea of glamour, I'm having second thoughts about letting you make me over.

I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

Creating authentic power means aligning your personality with your soul.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.