“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”

“Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”

“Sometimes people don’t want the truth. Sometimes the truth is worse than a lie.”

“In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.”

“Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.”

“I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie.”