On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.