"<p>A liar always talks fast, mincing and babbling. He is very careful to embellish the incidental detail of a lie with every shade of truthfulness. He meticulously describes the clothing of the person he has not met but lies that he has just seen him. He lies desperately, like a good student who blows his homework.</p> <p>A liar has no real imagination; he lies most of the time without a purpose; he does not know that the simplest reality is more interesting than anything he can conjure up.</p>"