“If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.”
“The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected!”
“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.”
“The effect of untrue statements on casual conversations is one of my great loves, my great ongoing investigations.”
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
“The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.”