“Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.”

“The only real enemy humans have is death. Every other enemy like a kid who slags you off at school or a cop who pulls you over you think they're enemies but they're not really. They're just I don't know irritations. But death that's the serious one because you know he'll win eventually. And that makes you like you've got to try to beat him. The bigger the challenge the harder you try. That's true of anything. In a way our enemies aren't these soldiers themselves our enemy is death and the soldiers are just his little local representatives." -Homer”

“Let’s go home,’ Homer said, ‘to Hell.”

“I don't want them hanging a double murder on me. It wouldn't look good on my school record.”

“At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks.Then you grow up.”

“What happened next played itself out like a terrible drama with two spectators. Lee and I stayed on our side of the fence, like an audience. Of course if the bull had wanted to smash through the fence he could have done so any time, but luckily nearly all cattle live and die without learning that. It's like school, most students go from kindergarten to Year 12 without noticing that they could do a fair amount of damage if they wanted to. They stay inside the fence.”

“Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.”