“My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.”
“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
“Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.”
“Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”
“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.”