Jonah Hill Quotes

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

I got sent some cheese once. I'm not sure if that was saying something about my act, or just because I like cheese.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Even though two and two might look like four, it could be three or five.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.