“Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!"No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.”
“I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.”
“Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights,Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down of nights.But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts,And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.”
“A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye.”
“This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?”
“And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.”