The only time I don't have a trick up my sleeve is when I am not wearing a shirt.

If you want to find out about a man you must push him to his limit, stop, and then continue pushing.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,
Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenity
And the wisdom of age? Had they deceived us
Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,
Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?
The serenity only a deliberate hebetude,
The wisdom only the knowledge of dead secrets
Useless in the darkness into which they peered
Or from which they turned their eyes. There is, it seems to us,
At best, only a limited value
In the knowledge derived from experience.
The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies,
For the pattern is new in every moment
And every moment is a new and shocking
Valuation of all we have been. We are only undeceived
Of that which, deceiving, could no longer harm.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.