“The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.”

“Nobody's seen Jesus in years.”

“It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is”

“Rattle his bonesover the stonesits only a pauperwho nobody owns”

“Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point.”

“As a child, Richard had had nightmares in which he simply wasn't there, in which, no matter how much noise he made, no matter what he did, nobody ever noticed him at all.”

“So yeah, Jesus does pretty good over here. But I met a guy who said he saw him hitchhiking by the side of the road in Afghanistan and nobody was stopping to give him a ride. You know? It all depends on where you are.”