“But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.”
“No artist knows everything (yea, even this artist - piss-artist, con-artist, body-artist) but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.”
“From now on, consider yourself a con artist.”
“Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.”
“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
“Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.”