David Geffen

In Los Angeles, they don’t want you to fail, they want you to die.

When I go to see Iron Man 3, I’m not as enthralled as I was when I saw The Bridge on the River Kwai.

My life is a success – I am a happy man.

I don’t care what their [Guns N’ Roses] record is. If you need a blood donor and the only person who can give you a transfusion is Hitler, you take the blood.

[on Bill and Hillary Clinton] Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn’t even know there was a show business.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth.’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Truth isn’t truth.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.