“Doc, I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living, and I want to put this bayonet through my stomach,”
“I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement”
“They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.”
“It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.”
“We came up to the first tower of the bridge, with a plaque proclaiming who had built it; I stopped to read. John Roebling. Aided by his wife, and then his son. He died during construction. But hey, the Brooklyn Bridge might be here for eight hundred years. I wanted to leave something like that behind. I didn’t know how I was going to do it, but I felt like I had taken the first steps”
“Honor? What do you care about honor? Honor gets people killed!' 'At least they die for something,' I say, and he doesn't protest further.”