“Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.”“What?”“Testosterone.”

“We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.”

“Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.”

“It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?”

“they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August”

“You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.”