Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.