
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.”
The Big Time (1958)
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.”
“Something tells me that this isn’t going to be as simple as it looks.”
“What is?” Wald said, raising his eyebrows.
“Nothing, of course. But hope springs eternal in the human spleen.”
Source: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 7, “A Few Cosmic Jokes” (p. 77)
Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.”
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: New Yorkers love to dupe themselves, as well as doom themselves. I haven’t had to live like that. I’m a California boy. I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
“You know that answer to that, don’t you. You don’t need me to tell you.”
The Rickover Effect (1992)