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Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.