There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me?

You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.