“The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.”

“When you alter yourself, the alterations become the truth...”

“Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.”

“A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?”

“You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.”

“It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.”

“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”