We live in a very litigious society. I've never sued anybody. I certainly can imagine a situation where I might sue, but it seems more or less in bad taste.

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 paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.

Writing is magic happening on paper

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car.

What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.

A closed mouth doesn't get fed.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.