"Imitation is always insult--not flattery."

"Less is more only when more is too much."

"Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability."

"Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to."

"There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card."

"I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies."

"I don't do online banking."

"Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it."

"If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am."

"Every form of payment has some risk associated with it."

"You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen."

"I make my home in Tulsa."

"I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison."

"Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger."

"From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I"

"Everything interests me, but nothing holds me."

"The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart."

"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."

"I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world."

"I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul"

"There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes."

"I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays."

"To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life."

"Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way."