“So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.”

“here's the thing about friends, I mean REAL friends: You can't just put up a poster at school and advertise for somebody and then hope you find the perfect one. It might work, I guess, but you'd look so pathetic and desperate that no one would want to be your friend, and so it would be kind of pointless”

“I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you'd give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.”

“He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not even now. He remembered what Maureen had told him once that it was the system that was at fault. But he could not even blame the system, because the system was not anything, it was only a kind of accumulation of everybody, and you could not blame everybody, not unless you wanted the blame to become diluted into a meaningless term, a just nothing. Besides, this system here in this country was the best system the world had ever produced, wasnt it? This system was by far and above the best system anywhere else in the world today. He felt if he did not find somebody to blame pretty soon he would hate everybody.”

“I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system already does.”

“...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine...”