I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.

One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t yet found out. I want to write things I haven’t written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.