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.

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 want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

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.

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.

Money can buy some things to create happiness, but it can never buy happiness.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Sometimes you do know, in 'Commando' when I said 'I lied', I knew that it was going to be a funny line. I've never had a bad line.

On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.

Personally, when I'm picking friends, I like the ones who don't make me cry myself to sleep.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

The future has taken root in the present.