Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.

The further away I am from water, the less well I do!

When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

I've signed dicks, asses, parole cards, a colostomy bag while it was still pumping. A couple of years ago, I signed a bloody Tampax. That's one you don't forget. I'm not asking for someone to top that!

I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.