The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Too much truth is uncouth.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.