Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

Life is like an analogy.

Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray’s best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhilarated.

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Hanging out with women on a platonic level is like spending time with someone from Europe. It's not better or worse, but it is different.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.

I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.

They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.