I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I’m sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.