Robert Mueller Quotes

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

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

The color of truth is gray.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Truth is a tendency.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

There are many levels of truth.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.