The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.