Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

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.

If you choose to walk through the fire, why do you complain it's hot?

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.

Nobody is wired wrong, because there's no wrong and right in the way we are.

Qhuinn wanted to scream... Yes he has!!!

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.