Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a li… - John Steinbeck

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds.

Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,” and he would have meant the same thing.