“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. ”

“...if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.”

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”

“The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.”

“You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.”

“Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find. ”

“For a better part of a decade, he had been outside society, distanced in mind and spirit if not in body. But now, for the first time since Centeral America, Jack Twist had the need, the desire, and ability to reach out to society around him, to make friends.”