"I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority."

"Laughter always forgives."

"If you mean Mr. Weston to be one of your victims," said I, with affected indifference, "you will have to ma…"

"Sir, I have completed the picture which you were kind enough to order, and have executed it with all possib…"

"A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with."

"I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have trie…"

"“What harm have the trees done them?” he said. “Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are sa…"