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

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.

We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!

Question everything, unless it's the answer

Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.

Meditation is wondering. It is both wondering and wonder.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.

Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.