Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle!

If there's a heaven, I would probably go. I've actually a very nice person.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

There must be something to think about at the end.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?" "No," Harper replied. "What people don't know can't hurt me.

If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.