I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.

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.

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.

Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

I don't want to judge anybody by wherever they go.