“You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps," Person continues. "you get you brains back.”

“You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.”

“When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.”

“You should know what happens when you play with fire, Cahill. Eventually, you'll get burned.”

“I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.”

“Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t stop reading the book! If you do…then you never get to find out what happens next!”