The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

- he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.