Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up. – Author Unknown

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. – Michel de Montaigne, translated from French