“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”
“Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand.”
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
at Council for Secular Humanism, October 9, 2010.
Context: I have been told that my position won't win the creationist court cases. Do you think I care? I didn't become a scientist because I want to impress lawyers. The word for people who are neutral about truth is "liars".
“But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?”
Source: The Shadow Queen
Variant: Love makes you a liar.
Source: City of Ashes
“And I, love, am a pathological liar.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
