Reality" is defined not as something that exists "out there" for the scientist or anyone else to discover but as a social construction that emerges from and is sustained by social interaction.

...[D]eviance is an attributed designation rather than something inherent in individuals...

Illnesses represent human judgments of conditions that exist in the natural world. They are essentially social constructions - products of our own creation.

What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true

Only you can see true beauty when you focus your beautiful light on things.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years.

One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.

Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.