“"Let someone else get killed!" "Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?" "Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?"”

“There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”

“I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.”

“I heard that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.”

“Whose side are they on?' said Brocando.
'Sides? Their own, I suppose, just like everyone else.”

“You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.”

“Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—"
He stood up. "Let's dance.”

“If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a thing.”

“I suppose […] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”

“Everyone superior in one thing. In civilized circumstances, everyone feels superior to everyone else in at least one way; this is the basis of the general goodwill, inasmuch as everyone is someone who, under certain conditions, can be of help, and need therefore feel no shame in allowing himself to be helped.”