It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.

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.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

No one is exempt from pain.u got all d stuff and no peace or all d peace and no stuff.

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

I just love it when I hear a little commotion, someone leaving. When I see those doors in the back . . .

You know who Boehner is, right? He's that orange looking guy. See, for Republicans that counts as diversity.

If you want to know where you'll be five years from now, listen to what you're saying about yourself today.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.