I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.

I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.

I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.

Appear On Your Fear, It Will Disappear

In the end it's not about how many breaths you took. In the end it's about the moments that took your breath away.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.