“Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.”

“Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!”

“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having to admit it's the truth.”

“Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can afford to be patient and engage the services of large, ruthless brutes. I've managed to evade them all. But you...God's truth, I think you'll be the very death of me.”

“It is so easy to let life go by us in its swift amusing course, that sometimes it hardly seems worthwhile to attempt any bold strokes for truth. Truth, of course, does not need assistance; it can afford to ignore our errors. But in this quiet place, among the whisper of the trees, I seem to have heard a disconcerning sound. I have heard laughter, and I think it is the laughter of God.”

“If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.”