Quotes from Clancy Martin

I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.

A suicide attempt can be very much like falling in love. You're not really sure, as you proceed, what is real and what you're making up as you go. You're genuinely uncertain how the whole thing's going to turn out. You want it, but you don't. It seems both inevitable and impossible.

we live now in circumstances that encourage rather than discourage lying; evidence and activity are more easily concealed, and the need to rely on demeanor as an indicator of a person's truthfulness is greater. And our evolutionary history has not prepared us to be very sensitive to the behavioral clues relevant to lying.

One night, on the phone with him, in the car on the way back from the grocery store, I broke down crying and said, "I'm a terrible wife. I'm not a good person. I'm as bad as everyone says." He said, "Don't flatter yourself. You're no better and no worse than anyone else.