truth

"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."

"But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, like a face that I hold inside, face that awakes when I close my eyes, face that watches everytime I lie, face that laughs everytime I fall. (It watches EVERYTHING) ... But the face inside is hearing me, right beneath my skin."

"People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are."

"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies."

"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth."

"I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth."

"Can Power speak the truth to love? These men certainly blurted it out. And what did we learn from them? That power is blind, and love at first sight is a fickle judge of those who grasp too desperately."

"All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money."

"It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth."

"The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort"

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

"With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later."

"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

"The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it."

"It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."

"And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"I’m more of a journalist than anyone in the mainstream media, and I write fiction. More than fiction, I write absurd nonsense surrealism, and my work has more truth."