They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've had to jump. I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course. But after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways ...Every night I save you.

You can't take the sky from me.