Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

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.

The light of God illuminated my path.

... don’t confuse between self-love and narcissism. Self- love is making yourself your number one priority but narcissism is start enforcing that priority over others. First one is healthy

And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.