“Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.”

“You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.”

“But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.”

“The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.”

“The universe would give you whatever you wanted if you twisted its arm hard enough.”

“She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What Ive learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders ones reality to the person to whom one lies, making tha...”

“Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

“Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadnt done anything wrong.”