Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.
But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?' 'You say "how very interesting" and change the subject.
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.
... truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.
We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.