“all success cloaks a surrender”
“Cloaks are nice. You can wear a cloak and have nothing on under it at all. And you can go anywhere you want like that!”
“The snow fell steadily, cloaking all the world in white.”
“Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.”
“Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.”
“Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”