“It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”

“It ’s no matter what you do
If your heart be only true,
And his heart was true to Poll.”

“It doesn't matter how many times you say it. It'll still be true.'
'And it doesn't matter what you won't let me say, that'll still be true too.”

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

“Naturally. I like to see General Motors stock register a good price on the market, but that is just a matter of pride… What has counted with me is the true value of the property as a business return on investment.”

“In life what matters is who you can count on.”

“Being an immortal doesn’t matter to me. If one looks out into the universe and perceives what true immortality would mean in terms of time and space, it takes monstrous hubris to even conceive of personal immortality, much less desire it.”

“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”

“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.”

“Can I remember— “I remember lots,” I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.”