...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.