When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

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.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

Prince Kanta was crazy!

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

Really, everything is designed.