Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.

What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.

But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

Make no mistake—we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.

If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

Some guys just slip under the radar.