“Unfortunately, this category of secret is itself so secret that it's very existance is secret, and he can't actually reveal it to anyone.”

“But secrets never, ever disappear, even after they are revealed. And that's the real secret right there. The empty space that never gets filled. The entropy of falsehood. The real secret is the secret itself.”

“People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.”

“It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.”

“It was part of their mission as a secret society--as it is part of the mission of most secret societies, actually--to not be entirely secret.”

“It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.”