"... in order to fall in love one has to be gullible; love, not cards, is the biggest con game. ... it's a con game that survives best when the woman and the man accept that a condition of being in love is being conned.

"if we're going to know ourselevs as human, we're going to recognize that part of being human lies in our capacity to be willingly duped. some trances, some ignorances, prove our worth as human beings."