Truth

"All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments."

"When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has."

"I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love."

"We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying-they are strange buildings-we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside very human being-sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment. But we are also the happiest people on earth; we make love as we never make love in life."

"Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end."

"...oppression is as American as apple pie..."

"Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."

"If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway."

"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."

"A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man."

"Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You."

"He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards."

"Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth."

"All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to."

"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel."

"If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?"

"I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions."

"Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable."

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."

"The best gifts come from the heart, not the store."