Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

Good soul easily sleeps well.

Talent helps, but it won't take you as far as ambition.

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.