Fake Truth Quotes

“They use the term ‘ripped from the headlines’ for their stories because it sounds a lot better than ‘plagiarized from the New York Times because we have no imagination.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“He felt like Rambo even though he was built like Dumbo”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“Nonsense is the new sense. To truly understand the world we are in today, you have to be a writer, or an actor, or a lunatic.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“Hell yes, baby. I can pollinate a rose garden with my smile,”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“He had plump, rosy cheeks and a thin beard that looked like it had been drawn on his round, chubby face with a Sharpie to indicate that he actually had a chin.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“Get the United States to start a war so they won’t intrude in yours.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“If you have to tell someone you’re powerful and famous, then either you aren’t or you’re embarrassingly insecure.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“The only thing less secure than airplane Wi-Fi is running naked through Compton holding all of your money, jewelry, and credit cards in a baggie.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“Even when the couple disabled “location history” or “location services” in an app, their wishes were ignored. The couple was more closely monitored than a paroled child molester with a tamperproof GPS tracker around his ankle.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“Smoking saved me. The chemicals couldn’t get past the charcoal in my lungs.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“He was a clean-cut man in his fifties who appeared so wholesome that Ian was sure he could pass as a high school teacher, a Mormon missionary, or the reliable love interest in one of those Hallmark Channel movies.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“when foreigners used American profanity. The swear words always seemed too big to fit in their mouths and were spit out rather than spoken, like a glob of tough meat they couldn’t chew and didn’t dare try to swallow.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“writers instinctively tried to generate plots from events around them as a means of survival, the way a pigeon is always searching for food, pecking at everything in sight. A spy lacked the imagination or the drive for that kind of free-association creativity.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“said he had a “unique artistic vision,” which wasn’t exactly a lie. His vision just happened to be shit.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“don’t know how much of this book has become reality in the time between when I finished writing it and when it ended up in your hands. My fear is that a lot of it has . .”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“He never was. It’s the rest of us who are delusional,” Ian said. “We blithely go through life pretending that we’re anonymous, that nobody cares what we are doing, saying, reading, or thinking when we know that all the electronic devices we have are constantly spying on us but we tell ourselves they aren’t.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“The Americans went into Pakistan to shoot that camel-fucker. Compared to that, crossing the US-Mexico border to cap him would be as risky as the secretary of defense sending a secretary to Starbucks to get him a latte.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“the world learned that Lady Liberty will shove her torch of freedom up your ass if you fuck with us.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“There are decades where nothing happens,” Edney said. “And there are weeks where decades happen,” Beth said, completing the Lenin quote that was their coded introduction.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“I’m not sure whether I’m losing my grip on reality,” he said. “Or if reality is losing its grip on us.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“Ronnie had retired from acting to live off the grid in an underground bunker in the Nevada desert to escape the government, which he fervently believed was listening to his thoughts and planning a global pandemic to usher in a new world order.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“Unlike other Russian sleeper agents, Dwight Edney didn’t have to worry about setting up clandestine meetings with his handler—because his handler was his mother.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“was how he imagined a rose garden would smell if somebody covered it with fertilizer, doused it with gasoline, set it on fire, and then put out the flames with buckets of horse piss.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“The only baggage they brought with them was psychological.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“Cannon, whose given name was Floyd Gruber, wore an elaborately embroidered Japanese silk kimono over his three-hundred-pound girth, and his crude oil black hair was tied into a tight man bun.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“The cabin was like a production designer’s idea of a mountain retreat. All that was missing was an elk’s head mounted on the stone fireplace.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth

“Syria, Virginia.”
― Lee Goldberg, Fake Truth