Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

Every woman needs to appreciate her natural beauty, but she also needs to analyze the topic of complexes in general

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts!

Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation

No work begun shall ever pause for death.