“I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.”

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”

“I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”

“I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.”

“You could control what you did, if you wanted to....Was it efficient? Was it productive? ...So many people didn't bother -- a kind of stupidity...a lack of vision, or purpose. Anyone who said they just woke up and found themselves in the place they'd always wanted to be was lying; and anyone who believed such a person was a fool. It was all a matter of will.”

“I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.”