“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”

“To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.”

“Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say "I know", I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.”

“I learned that attention is a prize, in love. The first thing you give. And the first thing to go, when the ‘new’ wears off.”

“It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.”

“If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.”

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”