I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

Humility is truth.