People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.
Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.
It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.
Craig Schwartz (in John Malkovich): There is truth, and there are lies, and art always tells the truth. Even when it's lying.
It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification.
All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in i...
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.
It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also––either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth...
No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.
My only goal is to make you laugh, not tell you the truth.
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
