“I learned in high school, if I hold up an effigy, a mask, or a lie, that mask will get all the love, not me.”
“Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.”
“I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man.”
“So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”
“All societies end up wearing masks.”
“We wear the mask that grins and lies...”