Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen, the…

- Luc Sante

The con is a kind of jiu-jitsu that turns the sucker's own greed into its principal weapon. The greedier you are the more likely you are to be conned…

- Luc Sante

I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yours…

- Luc Sante

New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, …

- Luc Sante

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable v…

- Luc Sante

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.

- Luc Sante

Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the…

- Luc Sante

Like a four-sided porch I'm open to all winds.

- Luc Sante

Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured i…

- Luc Sante