“What can you do with a character who responds to everything by either punching it or deploying Bat Anti-thing Spray. . . then punching it?”
“I don’t punch walls, because walls don’t punch back. I also don’t punch things that can and do punch back. ”
“There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.”
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
“It’s not how hard of a punch you can throw, it’s how hard of a punch you can take.”
“I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying?Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.”