Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.

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.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

...flames moved towards himand dropped within-singed and marred his tender skin ...(the frightful plight tale)

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

I think this [Feels like Christmas] is one of the greatest, most unsung albums ever. It's Cyndi Lauper, and it's called Hat Full Of Stars. She's so underrated.

The more prosperity you have, the quicker you ... attract the looters and the plunderers.... And so when a country becomes richer it falls apart sooner.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

Hope is man's inner effort.