“Remember that every man is a variation of yourself”

“What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.”

“Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!”

“She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.”

“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”

“Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.”