“A man shouldn’t go crying like that, people will think you’re weak.”

“If a lion can growl, why shouldn’t a man cry?”

“don’t even like the word ‘normal.’ It’s overrated and shouldn’t be applied to people. We all have different strengths, weaknesses, faults, and of course problems.”

“If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.”

“I thought that it was possible at a time like that to cry. There was a switch inside somewhere, and a person could just decide to flip it and start crying. Maybe it looked and felt like the toggle switch on the engine. Silver and smooth. One direction was on; the other direction was off. Easy to flip. You do it without looking. Up -- you’re happy and strong. Down – you’re crying and weak.”

“It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the cries of the sick and hungry. The world wasn’t like that— or it shouldn’t be like that—even though I hadn’t seen enough of the world to know what it was really like.”