This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try.

That’s it. Keep that edge. Fight like there’s no tomorrow.

A night in space can last a long time … or maybe it never ends.

How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.

Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.