More quotes by Tim O'Brien

"Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor."
"A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written."
"That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth."
"That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth."
"Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you."