“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

“Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.”

“How is your writing going, Michael?""Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan.”

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”

“They say 'truth is stranger than fiction,' but I like to say fiction is truth - only stranger.”

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”