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

“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.”

“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.”

“and all I could see was a teary streaking of lights and little bubbles of color before I had to close up again, to shut myself in; so it couldn't be, it couldn't be the case, there's no way that all this was moving around me, Einstein was wrong-”

“Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead.”