The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.

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.

You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery

A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.

If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.