Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed.

The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines