While reading Tom Bissell’s profile of director Werner Herzog in Harper’s Magazine, I came across this Herzog quote in one of the footnotes, which had my laughing out loud during a flight to Albuquerque …
“Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.”
It didn’t end there. Here’s Klaus Kinski on Herzog, as quoted from Kinski’s autobiography: “I absolutley despise this murderous Herzog. … Huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes, gobble up his balls, penetrate his asshole, and eat his guts.”
Very cool. Great profile, too.
2 replies on “The fiendish stupidity of chickens”
Bottomless stupidity… horrifying, cannibalistic, nightmarish creature. Add “orange-clad” and “chinless” and you’ve described the typical UT football fan.
i thought chickens were the most stupid animals on the face of the planet too… until i acquired a flock of ducks. no contest. the ducks can’t remember where their feed is kept from one day to the next. it’s absolutely mind-boggling that they survive.