You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

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.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

I believe in love at first sight. I know it's real because I experienced it the moment I saw my wife for the first time.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.

Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn’t mention that his pink boxer shorts were showing, but they were!)

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

Actions that sometimes seem mean aren’t. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it. (Acheron)