“Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.”

“That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.”

“What else is there to say?Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.”

“We don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.”

“What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing itdown.”

“But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?”

“I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.”