When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt
More and more, and especially over the last two decades, we've found out how many conspiracies there actually are. We really don't know the exact truth about a lot of things. We know there are big things going on involving huge companies and industries, whether it's money involved or oil or things in their own country, but there are personal interests at play and it's a very well woven network that's hard to break down. Sometimes it is hard, for us, to know who is telling the truth.
The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.
Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God, and tell the truth.
History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
Trump fired Jim Comey because the most dangerous thing in the world, if you are Donald Trump, is a person who tells the truth, is dogged, you can't control, and who is as committed as Comey is to the institutional independence of an organization that has the power to investigate you.
[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.
George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.
Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.
For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.
I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
People are more interested in someone who goes on stage and tells the truth.