“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”

“The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see”

“What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.”

“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”

“A lover's a liar,To himself he lies,The truthful are loveless,Like oysters their eyes!”

“Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.”

“I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.”