A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.