“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”

“Success comes in cans, not cannots.”

“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”

“Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cu...”

“Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But may...”