Scott Walker Quotes

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

You are living in an unreal world when you work there [the White House.]

Washington is not a geographical entity, it is a state of mind.... People understand how Cleveland works. They even understand how New York City works, but they can't figure Washington out.

This town [Washington DC] can only operate successfully on myth.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.

There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.

When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

In politics, what appears is.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

Photography threatens fantasy.

Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

You look like a ghost," Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. "You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned