As a general rule I try to avoid lying - not so much because I have ethical misgivings about it, but simply because I can't be a**ed to remember what lies I told to whom. I smoke way too much weed, to be spinning elaborate webs of intrigue...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw