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.

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

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.

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

If someone tells you that George Bush is not the 43rd president of the United States, they might be engaged in wishful thinking, or denial, but if they make that claim, it's either true or false! And you can assess that, regardless of whether there's an omniscient narrator, or an unreliable narrator, or it's shot in vérité, or it's manipulated, it's agitprop, whatever! It makes no difference! It's a style!