I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Knowledge is two-fold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true but in the negation of that which is false.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false and most are uncertain.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images devious and prejudicial language dubious linkages weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Men will confess to treason murder arson false teeth or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Humor distorts nothing and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist which quite a lot of playwrights especially playwrights younger than me have become guilty of.