Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Fiction is never admitted where truth may work.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that have already happened.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

Faith and belief have nothing in common; they are as different as darkness and light.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

The whole thing's extraordinary, I don't think anybody can seriously believe I have any connection to terrorism of any kind.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

I neither deny nor affirm the immortality of man. I see no reason for believing in it, but, on the other hand, I have no means of disproving it.