“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”

“He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.”

“And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.”

“Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.”

“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”

“if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.”