Steven Hoffman

“No wonder that, many years later, FBI Director Louis Freeh required all incoming FBI special agents to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, to understand the great power they soon would be privileged to wield and to absorb what can happen when that power goes unchecked.”
― Andrew Weissmann, Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America

“Today, we face a choice of our own. Do we allow the deliberate erosion of truth in the name of a nonexistent “right to lie”?”
― Andrew Weissmann, Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America

“gone. Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Maybe I’ve had more practice with lying to my father. We’re grown men, Innes, and if we want to be friends, if we want to have a couple of pints and look at sheep vans, then we should be able to do what we like. Besides, you invited him, and he said no. You asked for his help and he refused you.” “Yes.” He straightened up. “Yes, he refused me. Of course. You’re right.” “Then tell your face.” Innes rubbed his face and for a moment it almost worked.”
― Douglas Stuart, John of John