Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It’s pouring out, it keeps diminishing.

Nobody looks stupid when they are having fun.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

Well, you need to hear about money, because you ain't gonna have no love and joy and peace until you get some money!

Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.

That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.

I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.