“He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged. ”

“For those who belong nowhere, and for those who belong to one place too much to belong anywhere else.”

“He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.”

“He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.”

“She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that's why she liked him-- because he just thought she was crazy.”

“They had a place where they belonged, and, even if it was because he didn't want to deal with their being different, he didn't treat them any differently. Which I think is a pretty successful implementation of Christianity.”