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

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.

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

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

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate.

Labor conquers all things.

Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God.

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.