Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

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.

Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here.

You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song.

Opportunities like this come once in a lifetime!

We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption

I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us.

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.