I'm married to the future.

People want to believe.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

Man had to hang on to his pride.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

Government isn't about religion or signs or symbols… It's about power and control.

The last time he'd walked through a woman's dreams, she'd almost killed him.

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

Hot legs, bring your Mother, too.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.