“You’ve done so much with so little, I think you deserve it most of all” — the kind-hearted literacy teacher of the intellectually subnormal protagonist, who wants, more than anything, to learn and be ‘smart’.

“I don’t think it’s right to make you have to pass a test to eat” — the kind-hearted intellectually subnormal protagonist takes pity on the experimental mouse having to solve ‘amazeds’ to get food, unaware that he is describing his own plight as a very low-IQ person in a human society that has only the most threadbare of safety nets.