The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.

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.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

Too ridged an image of how things should be can completely scuttle any potential success.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

Chiropractic care is the only real, long-lasting relief that I have found for my neck pain due to an old injury.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.