Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

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

Exactitude is not truth.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.