I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

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.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

Individuality should not translate to narcissism. Realizing the strength of individuality is an accomplishment while being narcissistic is a failure.

Your accomplishments in the past and present has a link to your future success.

Do not allow any discouragement in your soul.

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Decorating has always been my hobby.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.