The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.