“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”

“But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school.”

“But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni — more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.”

“Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time,… some lies can be true,… broken faith may be restored.”

“Some stories are true that never happened.”

“Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?”

“But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.”

“…there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true…”

“not all drugs are good.. some of them are great”

“There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.”