“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”
“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.”
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
“It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.”
“We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph.”
“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.”