I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others.

Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living—and to determine that with God’s help you will live for Christ.

Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.

The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego

Stop regretting and let your mistakes and failures be your greatest teachers in life. Wisdom can only come from living and learning.

I want to put elements from movies into TV to raise the quality of TV.

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.