“Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too.You just had to decide who your friends really were.”

“...a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.”

“If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all kinds of trash. They were trash for connoisseurs of trash. Trash for people who understood just how good trash could really be.”

“But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.”

“The terminals were so corroded it looked like some kind of alien had taken a dump on the battery and then decided to play with it.”

“If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.”