“...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.”
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”
“He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.”
“Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.”
“I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.”
“My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.”