- Kerwin Whitman: Of Human Bondage? You want me to read a book called "Of Human Bondage"?
- Daniel Holden: It's not that kind of bondage.
- Daniel Holden: [commenting on gallows humor] We call it lethal injection humor - more humane, but not as funny.
- Kerwin Whitman: I can't do time the way you do it.
- Daniel Holden: I don't do time.
- Kerwin Whitman: That's what I'm talking about. I can't do time by not doing time the way you do time.
- Daniel Holden: I can't quite get a handle on the concept of time yet. There have been moments here today where I feel like I've only been gone a few weeks, and I'm still in high school. But mostly it seems like I was always there. So you may have to tell me, Mother.
- Janet Talbot: Tell you?
- Daniel Holden: When it's time for me to leave.
- Daniel Holden: I had convinced myself that kind of optimism served no useful purpose in the world where I existed. Obviously, this radical belief system was flawed and was, ironically, a kind of fantasy itself.
- Daniel Holden: At the least I feel that those specific coping skills were best suited to the life there, behind me. I doubt there will serve me so well for the life in front of me, so I will seriously need to reconsider my world view.
- Kerwin Whitman: I'll give your dead Somerset Maugham a shot when you're done, but if it don't grab me early, I'm setting it down.
- Daniel Holden: No rules for a club that's not a club.
- Kerwin Whitman: Hey, will I be glad when you get past your dead white men writing about lily white Europe stage?
- Daniel Holden: I am on kind of a jag.
- Daniel Holden: I'm not sure what to make of this drastic change of course in my life. I'm certainly not against it.
- Jared: Well, you can go a lot of ways, but one of my favorites is called "Dazed and Confused".
- Daniel Holden: I like the title.