A night in space can last a long time … or maybe it never ends.

— Henry V. O'Neil

Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you lying out there, I’m going to make sure you’re alive before I go.

— Henry V. O'Neil

Because when you’re really scared to do something … do it right away.

— Henry V. O'Neil

Don't let 'em see they killed you!

— Henry V. O'Neil

Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.

— Henry V. O'Neil

Food’s the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn’t believe how fast they consume what they’re carrying, and then … if I don’t get them more, if I don’t find them more … they die.

— Henry V. O'Neil

Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often, and you’ve got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you’ve got a herd.

— Henry V. O'Neil

He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he’d peed himself, it didn’t matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.

— Henry V. O'Neil

How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.

— Henry V. O'Neil

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

— Henry V. O'Neil