“When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.”
“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”
“In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.”
“If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.”
“Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?”
“You’re a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.”