A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

The way I understand things, the Bible may have been thought out by God, but it was written down by men. And like everything men write down, such as the newspapers, they got the main story right but some of the details wrong.

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

You yourself would never have done such things! But you yourself will never have had to.

[H]aving a money value was no substitute for love.