You're not such a dog as you think you are.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.