“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”
“There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.”
“..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.”
“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
“It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath -- as terrible as you like -- but a mask.”