“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”

“You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End.”

“All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They:But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way,You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!”

“Sharing your secret with someone means you involve them in your problems. It may make things easier for you, but your family could end up suffering for it too.”

“Is dirt nice? Is death nice? Above all is dying nice? And, in the end, we must ask, is God nice? I doubt it.”

“They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.”