"Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie."
- Ally Carter
"You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thi..."
- Dean Koontz
"Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered."
- Victor J. Stenger
"It’s all biology. If it weren’t for two thousand years of the Christian tradition we wouldn’t think of pretending otherwise…Romance is the true opiate of the masses."
- Amanda Craig
"The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch."
- Leigh Bardugoh
"Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of."
- Aaron B. Powell
"They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length ra..."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"...the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness."
- F. Sionil José
"You cannot con an honest man."
"Farragut's first visitor was his wife. He was raking leaves in yard Y when the PA said that 734-508-32 had a visitor. He jogged up the road past the firehouse and into the tunnel. It was four flights ..."
- John Cheever