It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

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.

The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.

Nature is not out there

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity.

When you push yourself hard enough to be consistent with your positive endeavors, you would surely become a future living testimony of how beautiful life can be.

A great book is like great evil.

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.