The attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you get too much older, it's the thing that separates men from boys, tho not in the way most men think.

How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?

What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.