“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

“[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.”

“A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.”

“And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won’t be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissimulation only if one tells the truth, only if one tells that one is telling the truth), still the text will remain indefinitely open, cryptic and parodying.”

“Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple”