I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

When it comes to recruiting people for the secret world, what the recruiters are looking for is pretty much what I had. I was unanchored, looking for an institution to look after me. I had a bit of larceny. I understood larceny. I understood the natural criminality in people - because it was - it was all around me. And I have no doubt there was a chunk of it inside me too. Once I found that identity, it took root in me. It exactly - it gelled with the world that I'd known in the past.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

You should have died when I killed you.