Quotes from Harmony Korine

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

I was walking home from the theatre with Goethe this evening when we saw a small boy in a plum colored waistcoat. Youth, Goethe said, is the silky apple butter on the good brown bread of possibility

i was going to die by my own hand and god jumped on me he said pull the trigger if you want i won't be angry its ok to kill yourself a young kid should not kill oneself but god said go ahead make my day what could i do then

if i had to describe myself i would say that i was am a cross between Jack Parr aNd MicheaL J. fox.

I once knew this guy. Went by the name ShakesSPHERE. Greatest writer who ever lived, only he never wrote anything down.

I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'

Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.

Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'

Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.