He is determined to scare the wits out of the troops to keep them in line. And he’s thinking that it doesn’t matter very much who he executes to do it. So many men have died, so many mothers have wept, so many brothers and sisters have crie

“The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you.”

“Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.”

“I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.”

“He saw the irresistible allure of high school sports, but he also saw an inevitable danger in adults’ living vicariously through their young. And he knew of no candle that burned out more quickly than that of the high school athlete.”

“He knew that we take what the universe gives us, and we either get the most out of it or we don’t, but in the end we all go out the same way.”

“There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.”

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

"They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too"

“And he's never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin.”