John Waters Quotes

"I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children."

Her jaws are no match for this frightening pest, who, temporarily blinded in panic, begins biting her tongue with its tiny bloodsucking mouth.

Fantasies are like extra cash, they need to be banked for later use. I chuckle to myself, remembering Quentin Tarantino’s hilarious line onstage when I interviewes him in the Provincetown Film Festival. ‘What was the best thing about your success?’ I had asked, and he answered, ‘Pussy… no, the memory of pussy'.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! Don’t sleep with people who don’t read!

There’s a prison there, too, which always makes me feel included.

Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

Listen to your political enemies, especially the smart ones, and then figure out a way to make them laugh.

There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.

[I] pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone's everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

"It's always up to other people to say if something is art. I hate it when people say, "I'm an artist." I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think "artist" is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work."

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it.

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet!