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.

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

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.

We will win with character, not with characters.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.