“He found it increasingly difficult to accept the strict codes of the sect that clashed with ordinary values.”

“Gotanda swung by at either-forty. He was wearing a perfectly ordinary gray V-neck sweater over a perfectly ordinary blue button-down shirt with- you got it - perfectly ordinary cotton slacks. And still he looked striking. Extraordinarily so.”

“I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, ordinary thought in my head”

“Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”

“Here," he said, "get yourself some healthy food. You look awful." I said he had done more than enough for me and that I couldn't accept money on top of everything else, but he refused to take it back. "It's not money," he said, "it's my feelings. Don't think about it too much, just take it." All I could do was thank him and accept the money.”

“Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.”

“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”