“..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.”
“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and 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.”
“Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.”
“A guy should make the woman he is dating feel different and more special than anyone else in his life”
“Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.”