“Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”

“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”

“But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.”

“I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

“The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”

“There are bound to be some lies here, but I’ve been telling them so long they’ve become truth, my truth, as close as I can get to what really happened.”

“How can my limitations in humanity bring me the truth? How can I find truth that I don't know?”

“I can always find someone
To say they sympathize
If I wear my heart out on my sleeve.
But I don't want some pretty face
To tell me pretty lies.
All I want is someone to believe.”

“I can make affirmation; I can say "So help me God, I will tell the truth."”

“The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in his simplicity and imagines he is telling the truth.”