“I mean to say, Krestyan Ivanovich, that I go my own way, a particular way. I'm my own particular man and, as it seems to me, I don't depend on anybody. I also go for walks, Krestyan Ivanovich.”
“I wish I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. If I'm going to die, I still want to be me.”
“The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.”
“I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way”
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
“I am not going to do anything with you: not if you mean by that 'do something to you' without your leave. We might do some things together. I don't know about sides. I go my own way; but your way may go along with mine for a while.”