Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

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.

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.

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

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.