In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Investigative reporting is not a way to make friends.
In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.
Time discovers truth.
Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.
Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.
Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea - and the tea is the emperor has no clothes!
When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised.
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
He [Robert F. Kennedy] is always on the lookout for a 'snow job,' impatient with evasion and imprecision, and relentless in his determination to get at the truth.
When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
There's a lot of ways someone can grow up, but one way is discovering your parents are not all they say they are.
It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.
Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.
