I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

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.

Simple style is like white light. It is complex but its complexity is not obvious.

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.