“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”

“Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!”

“Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted.The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?”

“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”

“A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.”

“Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”

“He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.”