I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

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.

Let love, joy, hope and peace be the guiding lights during this holiday season.

Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

Random questions are the least random of all questions.

& I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face

I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.