Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

You cannot con an honest man.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

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...

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...

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.