- [first lines]
- Overlapping Televangelist Voices: Thou shalt not kill. / There are people among us who have killed. / Foolishness is nothing, we're all just believing in God. / On the mountain the Lord will provide, says scripture. This is not some platitude. It is God's literal testimony. / Chase away all pessimists, over the hill, far away. / Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. / There are those who will point to what they call inconsistencies in the Word of God. And I say, remember, He is God the Father.
- Jake: Are you mad because I caught you talking to the television
- Hank: Would it make you feel better to know that Bob's deductible is as big as the gross national product of several countries in Africa?
- Frank: What about your dreams? Do those get worse as you get older? I find that the oven gets harder to clean as *it* gets older. I know it's not the same thing, but I'm trying to make an imaginative leap.
- Jake: You know, civilians think that killing a person is the worst thing you can do, but I come back from my tour, I visit home, I see all my buddies working dead-end jobs working themselves to death.
- Frank: You look down on people like me because we do ordinary jobs. You're a swaggering hero because you get to walk around some Middle Eastern backwater with your AK-47. Do you laugh when some helpless Arab conscript, barely out of his diapers, gets fried in his 1950s vintage tank?
- Jake: I'm a soldier, not some psycho. What is wrong with you?
- Preacher: What happens when the crown of glory of a man's life proves to be an illusion? What does that man do when the entire base of his life falls. My friend, I understand, it happened to me.