“The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.”

“The strong man is he who knows how and is able to become and be himself; the magnanimous man is he who, being strong, knows how and is able to issue forth from himself, as from a fortress, to guide, protect, encourage, and save others.”

“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?”

“The being was trying to get him to think about what he was saying, not just recite.”

“If we know the secret of how the universe thinks and works, then we will get everything we want.”

“If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.”

“He wanted what he didn’t know and he didn’t know how to get what he wanted.’ (Acheron)”

“Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.”

“You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-"
"I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.”

“A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.”