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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.