Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear.

The show had run its course on the Fox network.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

It's just overwhelming just knowing your dream is here in front of you.

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

Giving someone the freedom to take responsibility releases resources that would otherwise remain concealed.

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say good bye.