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

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 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.

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.

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.

I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal.

Life was never easy, but I always made it as easy as it can be.

It's okay for you to lie but not for me to try

For the one who writes it . . . a story is like a mirror.

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

God ever arithmetizes.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time