Jim: [during an American airstrike] P-51! Cadillac of the sky!
Jim: Would you like a Hershey bar?
Nina: Oh yes, please
Jim: So would I kid, have you got one?
Jim: I can't remember what my parents look like.
Basie: Jim, didn't I teach you anything?
Jim: Yes! You taught me that people will do anything... for a potato.
Basie: Don't let me down kid you're an American now.
Jim: [in a Brooklyn accent] Hey how'ya doin' Frank?
Maxton: I heard you resigned from the Scouts.
Jim: I've become an atheist.
[after Basie's friend killed Jim's Japanese friend]
Jim: Bastard! He gave me a mango!
Basie: I'll give you a whole goddamn fruit salad. There are Frigidaires falling from the sky. It's kingdom come!
Jim: He was my friend!
Basie: He was a Jap!
Jim: The war's over!
Jim: I was dreaming about God.
Mother: What did he say?
Jim: Nothing.
[smiles]
Jim: He was playing tennis.
Jim: Learned a new word today. "Atom bomb." It was like the God taking a photograph.
Jim: Amatus sum, amatus es, amatus est.
Sgt. Nagata: [to Jim] Boy. Difficult boy.
Basie: Oh, buying and selling, Frank. You know. Life.
Chinese Youth: No mama. No papa. No whiskey sodas.
Jamie: Help me, I'm British.
[Tossing a pair of sunglasses to Jim as the Japanese army begin to beat him]
Basie: I want these back when they're done.
Jim: We'll have to leave the camp?
Basie: That's the idea, Jim. First one side feeds you and the other side tries to get you killed, then it's turned around; it's all timing.
[Jim grabs wildly at Chinese soldiers after hearing about the atomic bomb]
Jim: I saw it! I saw it! It was like a white light in the sky.
