Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

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

There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.