“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”

“When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.”

“Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.”

“I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that- it just makes me sick.”

“The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker”

“Hoshino found Oshima an appealing young man. Intelligent, well groomed, obviously from a good family. And quite kind. He's got to be gay, right? Not that Hoshino cared. To each his own, was his thinking. Some men talk with stones, and some men sleep with other men.”