He holds no hard feelings. A lot of times the truth is stranger than fiction. This is an unusual case. In 15 years, I have never seen anyone come up on these charges.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

When you don’t know what to believe, when you’re not prepared to play the amateur detective, then you get tired and dismiss the entire business, you let it go, you stop thinking and wash your hands of the truth or of the whole tangled mess—which comes to the same thing. The truth is never clear, it’s always a tangled mess. Even when you get to the bottom of it. But in real life almost no one needs to find the truth or devote himself to investigating anything, that only happens in puerile novels.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer