You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.

Never diagnosed the enemy before.

It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play.

When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

Before you do anything, whatever it is, figure out who you are first.

Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.

Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.