The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. – Aristotle

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

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

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com