Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

Within a social structure, a familial structure, or a cultural structure of various kinds, there is a substitute for actual freedom. I mean, actual freedom is a very abstract notion; we have no idea what it means, except within a context - freedom to do what? So within these social structures, freedom becomes defined as power, your ability to make choices, and the power relationship within a family, any family.

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.