In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Reality is just a point of view.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

The consequences of giving up on your dreams are bitter than the causes of your intentions to give up. Don’t give up!

All glory to the Adonai!

Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.

It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!