“Beauty lies in one’s heart and sex lies in one mind. It all depends on where your belief lies.”

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”

“Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.”

“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”

“The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another”