As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

Frank is the biggest liar. If his lips are moving, he's lying.

This guy Hartman is a stone cold liar. He's worse than me — I mean, I know I'm a liar. If they're going to execute me for lying, they ought to strap him on the gurney right next to me. That Petro, too.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots.
After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.