488 Quotes by John Waters

People are going to say, “I was a lesbian back in the 90s” just like people say, “I was a hippie in the 60s”. I see them struggling. Rich girls struggling with their heterosexuality.

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.

Humor is how you change people’s opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they’ll listen, even if they hate you.

Baltimore never changes much. People aren’t impressed by anything. It’s great; it’s not a trendy town.

If you’re not sure you could love your children, please don’t have them, because they might grow up and kill us.

Time marches on and I don’t care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don’t care if they’re on their phone.

And I seek people who break rules with happiness – and not bringing pain to themselves.

It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn’t get it.

Fantasies are like extra cash. They need to be banked for later use.