“It doesn't do any good to fight with Sonny. Sonny just moves back, inside himself, where he can't be reached.”
“Without knowing he was going to do it, Sonny smiled right at the general and said in a loud, firm voice, "It's okay. He's my brother, sir.”
“ It's a clear day Sonny, L A N D. ”
“Then she began to mutter to herself and gesture to the empty air.oh. Sonny sighed. Just another central park crazy.”
“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
“...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.”