The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

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.

Your greatest actions are those that meet another’s greatest need.

Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.

You're my special angel, sent from up above. The Lord smiled down on me, and sent an angel to love.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.

India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.

If you don’t stay away from her I’ll rearrange that pretty face of yours. - Simon

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.