Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below.

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.