“The worst liars are the ones everyone thinks would never ever tell a lie.”

“Who’s the bigger liar?Me or them?Isn’t lying about love the worst lie? Isn’t that worse than anything I’ve ever done?”

“Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known.”

“The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.”

“The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.”

“We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in – a way to signal those lies that could be more accurately described as dreams. Lies – they make for a tidy little psychological Doppler effect, tell us more about a liar than an undistorted self-report ever could.”