Sometimes I think you're still a prisoner. You're not free of this place in your head, Nathan. And you're definitely not free of those people. They haunt you.

I’m tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The war is killing you.

I'm not a hero but I can end the war

If I have friends how come I always feel alone?

Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.

You've been away a long time. Were you lost?' He sounds lost himself, half strangled and fighting to stay conscious.'Wounded, not lost, ' I tell him, but I do feel lost.

He says, "You know I love you. Still. Forever".

In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.

Talking to people is the most educational thing I know.

I acted my heart out.

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.