“Who says I belong in Heaven?”

“You," he says, with a dirty look, “don’t deserve salvation.”"As if you could give it to me,” I croak. “Why would I want to go to Heaven anyway when it’s crammed full of murderers and kidnappers like you and your buddies?” “Who says I belong in Heaven?”

“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.”

“If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.”

“I am a man who belongs to nobody and who belongs to everybody.”

“He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.”