Contemporary art hates you.

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.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

Sometimes it's better to let people handle their own problems. Sometimes just believing in someone is the best way to stand up for them.

I love music and I love to dance.

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.