Lying
When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.