I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

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.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Lord Henry smiled. "He gives you good advice, I suppose. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.