“Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.”

“Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?""It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts.”

“They don't kill you unless you light them," he said as Mom arrived at the curb. "And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you dont' give it the power to do its killing.”

“Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?”

“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you," he said.”

“You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,” he said.”

“I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.”