Truth

"Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

"I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in."

"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man."

"The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things."

"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."

"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."

"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them."

"What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in."

"In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's."

"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion."

"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."

"Nothing is yet in its true form."

"I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't"

"In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him."

"...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong."

"The color of truth is grey."

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

"The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies."

"A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…"