Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

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.

I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.

It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.