Most of the time when people think they are telling me things I don’t know, I am just pretending for the sake of social decorum. Took me a while to get used to doing that, and to get good at it.

“Oh, I had no idea.” Yeah, I did. I am a know-it-all, but no one likes a know-it-all. This is one way I realized pervasive lying was a necessary part of the social contract.