It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

A handful of truth is better than a mouthful of lies.

Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden hat, wahrer ist als man selber.