It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

Life change for us every single week so.. It's good but I know this aint the peak though.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

I rather think he knew anyway.

You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

The one thing that unites Sunni, Shiites and Kurds is they want the Americans out.