“The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.”
“Even the most fanciful story contains nuggets of truth. As readers, our job is to mine them.”
“Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie”
“There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.”
“In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.”
“Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.”