“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”

“Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more— also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.”

“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.”

“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.”

“Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.”

“Your truths are worse than your lies.”

“Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”

“If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.”

“Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”

“No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.”