“They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.”

“People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.”

“He lifted my foot and placed a kiss on the tip of my big toe. That toe had never been kissed in its life. I wondered if it was smart enough to know what had just happened. Would it lord it over the other toes now that it had been singled out and kissed by Frank Wells, or was it just a fucking toe and didn’t know what the hell was going on? Like me.”

“If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.”

“I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his...”

“The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he'd come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap. Boots might last ten years, at best, but knowledge was eternal.”