“Get closer," I told Blackjack. "I need to talk to the statue."he muttered, but he flew as close as he could, dodging the flying statue.”

“He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."”

“Only drunks stare at statues …. I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.”

“Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't,
but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.”

“When they talk about legal status, that's code for second-class status.”

“I did not need to know if he could love me.
I needed to know if he could need me.”

“Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.”

“I remember one time I tried to pity this fool. He told me his name was Jeff. He was married. He pulled out his wallet and showed me three pictures of his kids; Kelly, Robert, Brittany. Real cute kids. Don't get too close man. It's hard to pity a fool if you get too close.”

“He told Lord Esher that, in talking with the Queen, he observed a simple rule: "I never deny; I never contradict; I sometimes forget."”

“If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?"
"Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive."
"Mockingjays do.”