“Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.”

“[A]n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth.”

“Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;”

“We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.”

“It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.”

“Anything more than the truth would be too much.”

“[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.”

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.”

“A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.”

“But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy.”