“The news coverage was as controlled and accurate as a fire hose wielded by a preschooler.”

“It’s hard to go underground when you weigh 400 pounds, Marcus. That’s why they’ll have to bury you in a piano case.”

“And as I worked, the strength returned to my arms and shoulders, and the hope to my heart - not the mad hope of wealth and power that had led me astray, but a sweet and steady sense of the worth of what I was doing.”

“You killed a horse!"My voice was still rough and low. "Well... he shouldn't 've been carrying you.”

“No back doors! I had a back door, but every fucker who thought he was bad wouldn't use the front door because everyone knows that if you're bad, you slip out through the back. I boarded it up - use the front door like everybody else.”

“I love the smell of lip balm in the morning”

“the brain's business is not to give us an accurate or objective view of the world, but to give us a useful view - one we can act on”