“What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?”

“If I had to confess, under torture, right now, what I think the simple idea is, I would say it's that we ourselves generate the world, the world is self-generated, but it may well be absolutely wrong.”

“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”

“We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.”

“Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.”

“The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.”

“The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.”

“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”

“When you spend that long on the outer reaches of empire, you understand the cruelty of empire … and the lies we tell ourselves about what is done in our name.”

“When were you going to tell me?"
He demanded. "Tell you what? That you can be a real asshole? How about right now.”