The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason the world hates the truth.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.