knowledge Quotes

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.