“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

“Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”

“Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.”

“if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.”

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”

“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”