You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

It was hard not to be full of hope

We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn't start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.