“That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again”

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”

“The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.”

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”

“The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.”

“Vin, Vin. can't you see? This isn't about good or evil. Morality doesn't even enter into it. Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men—only the things they want are different.”

“Sometimes leaving is the only thing you can do.”

“You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

It's really funny.”

“That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset.”

“You can either look at your career as the things you're going to leave behind, and they have to be executed flawlessly and you have to know exactly what it is that you're doing. Or you can be realistic about the fact that you're going to learn as you practice what you do.”