Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.