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I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.