“Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”

“'“Everything is true”, he said. “Everything anybody has ever thought.””

“Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough.”

“I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true.”

“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true.”

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

“Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'

'Will you be all right?'

'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.”

“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”

“At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre.”

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true.”