A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.

Your Majesty, ” Durzo said gravely. “A man of your stature’s cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears.” - Durzo Blint

Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder.

...escaping Neph's magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens.

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.

Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go while you may enjoy the flowers you may not eat them.

Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.

White folks still in the lead.

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.