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

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

“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.”

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

“They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!”

“I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn't look at me and wish that I were something else, because He likes me just this way. I feel like, God doesn't want me to close my eyes and pray for Him to make me holy or for Him to make me pure; because He made me human. I feel like, God already knows I'm human...it is I who needs to learn that.”