“Things are rough all over.”

“Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.”

“Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.”

“I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers”

“...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.”

“He sure put things into words good.”

“What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!”