“After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.”

“You can’t be spontaneous within reason.”

“Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.”

“Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit der letzte Unterschied, der uns bleibt.”

“You have to believe what you’re saying if you’re going to convince me. I just can’t break that rule, even if I want to.”

“I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.”

“We’re fine.’ A few feet away, Aurum snarled quietly, which meant Nico was lying.”

“Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren’t so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.”

“Bullshit takes no genius,even fool senses its’ foul.”

“I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn’t forgive others.”

“For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don’t need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.”

“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)”

“The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don’t feel safe to let people in it is because you’re not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.”

“…the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.”

“People only lie because they are afraid of the truth”