If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

We’re news junkies in my house.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

Truth is a pathless land.

I don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I make pop culture.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

Facts are stubborn things.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.