Whitehead

There's one more lie, and it's the first one you told us. When I asked you for the time, you said you didn't know. But I know it was another one of your mendacities because I can see your watch right there, right below where Jim is holding your wrist. And that's the worst lie of all, because when a stranger asks you the time, you should never lie. It's just not neighborly. (Colson Whitehead, "The Intuitionist", 76-77)