Erick Rivers

“To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste. it's easy to disgust someone; I could make a ninety-minute film of people getting their limbs hacked off, but this would only be bad bad taste and not very stylish or original. To understand bad taste one must have very good taste. Good bad taste can be creatively nauseating but must, at the same time, appeal to the especially twisted sense of humor, which is anything but universal.”
― John Waters

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I would stay here for the rest of time in the ocean which was the universe which was the soul which was all that mattered.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― John Waters