When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. – Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11 – Bible

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. – Richard J. Needham

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. – W. H. Auden