From Mike's AIM profile:

[thewordjunkie]

"In a world more and more polluted by the lying of politicians and the illusions of the media, I occasionally crave to hear and tell the truth... Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, [and] most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy."

I don't know who said that, but it struck me.

EDIT: The individual quoted here is Francine du Plessix Gray.