Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Nature exists for man to exploit for his own ends, while the end of man himself is nothing else but to serve God, to be grateful to Him, and to worship Him alone.

A smile is the most beautiful thing you can wear.

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does.

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades's underwear?

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.