“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.”

“…but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.”

“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”

“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”

“The world and the devil fight against us believers, because we will not wear their mask of hypocrisy, under which gross wickedness may be committed.”

“He had a wall of masks from every country he‘d been to, like Armenia and Chile and Ethiopia. It‘s not a horrible world, he told me, but it‘s filled with a lot of horrible people.”

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”

“Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face.”

“All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”