It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops

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

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of presenting material doesn't guarantee truth. There's this crazy idea that somehow you pick a style, and by virtue of picking the style, you've provided something that is more truthful. It's as if you imagine that changing the font on a sentence you write makes it more truthful.

There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.