The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].

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 lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons.

The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom, Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison That keeps you from achieving what you want.