The State Department is essentially... I was going to use the word useless. But I don't know if that's correct.

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.

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.

Some of us are busy doing things

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

I want my films to be seen everywhere.

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

My arm hurts all the time now. It hurts right now. It never stops hurting.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.