“Chalk one up to ingenuity.”
“I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood.""I'd chalk it up to that narcissistic personality disorder laces with a smidgen of schizophrenia. Your mother would be proud.”
“But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.”
“He said when you use your brain, no-one comes near you for ingenuity”
“If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination”
“Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?”