Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.