“Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm.”

“I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”

“It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.”

“There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.”

“To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm.”

“Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.”