The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.

Since Bin Laden's death, many Americans have decided that our job in Afghanistan is done. They see a victory in the counterterrorism campaign, and are tired of the corruption, confusion and dysfunction of the nation-building campaign.