honesty Quotes

Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested in what I believe.

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.