I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

Your time will come to follow me Jew

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

Repentance is for little children.

I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

I could never acceptlife as it was, I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts, tenuous magic partsopen for theasking.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

We all have to feel empty sometimes.

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.

I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.