“If we survive this, I'm going to have a very serious talk with the techs back home about what constitutes "need to know.”

“We don't bolt, Ensign ... We advance cautiously to the front and quickly to the rear.”

“Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime except by those they saved during the war.”

“The main difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn't think he was a fighter pilot.”

“... they couldn't do it the easy way, so they cut through the problem and made another option.”

“Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people while they're still alive! That way, they can know that we're thinking about them! I always tell people when I'm thinking about them, or that I thought about them, or that I have been thinking about them and it almost always scares them away, but so what, I am practicing the art of life and if that is frightening to them then maybe they need to start living while they're still alive!”

“I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.”