“The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. ... How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!”

Source: Strangers on a Train

Source: Upon the Midnight Clear

cited in: Andrea Varsavsky, ‎Iven Mareels, ‎Mark Cook (2010). Epileptic Seizures and the EEG. p. 89

“A Lie,” p. 65
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”

Source: Vanishing Acts

Source: Americanah

Book 3, Chapter 5 “The Pale King’s Mercy” (p. 118)
The Elric Cycle, Elric of Melniboné (1972)

Act I, scene 2.
Sardanapalus (1821)

. "The Rise of Lady Gaga." by Brian Hiatt, in Rolling Stone (11 June 2009): 57-61.