It’s important to feel good about yourself. This morning I met somebody I really like—me. - Tim Powers

Say that again after you’ve been in the same spot and acted differently, old buddy. Maybe then I’ll be ashamed.

I’m not a joiner. Any time you work with people, they turn out to be inept clowns.

What would Dad say, Frank wondered briefly, if he knew I was making a living as an art forger? He’d understand. As he once told me, while squinting against the hideous sunlight of a cold morning, “Frankie, if it was easy they'd have got somebody else to do it.”