The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

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.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Try to lead the leaders and first never follows in whatever case may be, avoid following someone just strive for being followed by other people.

Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.