“I’d never name my kid Mark, for fear he’d be a target—a mark.”

“If my name were Mark Twain, I’d write under the pseudonym “Samuel Clemens.”

“I want to make my mark,' he says.But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?”

“The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.”

“I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.”

“I know I can make my mark on this world, and not because of my last name - but because of my own talent.”