Quotes on Tall Tales

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.