Jay Asher Quotes

If that comes up, I'll just confuse them.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

An excuse is the handy explanation we offer when we disappoint other people.

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other, and then I can just go home, and they don't know.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. I was being economical with the truth.

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please. You're not going to get me with that question today, buddy...I'm a veteran at this, buddy. Can't get that with me, buddy. Not today.

So", says Jack at at last..."you broke up with Connor". Wow. So we're straight to the point. "So", I reply defiantly. "You decided to stay". "Yes, well...", "I thought I might take a closer look at some of the European subsidiaries." He looks up. "How about you?" "Same reason." I nod. "European subsidiaries".

An excuse is a lie guarded.

An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.

When a guy says "I have no idea what you're talking about" it means "I'm thinking of exactly what you're saying I did while I lie to you."