"Is that why you're here, Colonel? Some kind of post-Vietnam experience like you need a rerun or something? You pour a hundred twenty million bucks into this place, you turn it into a military zone, so what, so you can have chopper parades in the sky?"

"You let them close down the universities, you let them wipe out the best minds in the countries, you let them kill whoever they want, you let them wipe out the Catholic Church, you let them do it all because they aren't Commies! And that, Colonel, is bull shit!"

"You gotta get close to get the truth. You get too close, you die."

"Left-wing, Colonel? Eh, maybe. But I'm not a Communist. And you guys never seem to be able to tell the difference!"

"John Savage - John Cassady"

"[about the government in El Salvador] A pathological killer on the right, God-knows-what on the left, and a gutless middle."

"[to his captors] I hope you all get anal herpes!"

"Chloë Sevigny - Caitlin Avey"

"Rosario Dawson - Andy Fox"

"Peter Sarsgaard - Charles Lane"

"He'd do anything to get a great story."

"Melanie Lynskey - Amy Brand"

"Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass"

"The story that shocked a nation."

"There's so many show-offs in journalism, so many braggarts and jerks. They're always selling, always working the room, always trying to make themselves look hotter than they actually are. The good news is, reporters like that make it easy to distinguish yourself. If you're even a little humble and a little self-effacing, you stand out."

"There are 16,800 magazines in this country, but only one calls itself the inflight magazine for Air Force One. That's the thrill of working at The New Republic. You're underpaid, the hours are brutal, but what you write gets read by people who matter: Presidents, lawmakers. Your work can actually influence public policy. That's an amazing privilege and a huge responsibility."

"Hank Azaria - Michael Kelly"

"Read between the lies."

"Luke Kirby - Rob Gruen"

"Cas Anvar - Kambiz Foroohar"

"Linda E. Smith - Gloria"

"Jamie Elman - Aaron Bluth"

"Mark Blum - Lewis Estridge"

"Simone-Élise Girard - Catarina Bannier"

"Ted Kotcheff - Marty Peretz"

"Chad Donella - David Bach"

"Steve Zahn - Adam Penenberg"

"It's true, journalism is hard work. Everyone is under pressure, everyone's grinding to get the issue out. No one is getting enough sleep. But you are allowed to smile. Even Woodward and Bernstein went out for a burger every once in a while. And they won a Pulitzer. Some reporters think that it's political content that makes a story. I think it's the people — their quirks, their flaws, what makes them funny, what makes them human. Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior. You have to know who you're writing for, you have to know what you're good at. I record what people do. I find out what moves them, what scares them, and I write that down. That way, they're the ones who are telling the story. And, you know what? Those kinds of pieces can win Pulitzers too."

"The New Republic, snobbiest rag in the business, the in-flight magazine of Air Force One... and their star goes out and gets completely snowed by a bunch of hackers. I mean, God couldn't have written this any better."

"Do you know what people did in the old days when they had secrets they didn't want to share? They'd climb a mountain, find a tree, carve a hole in it, whisper the secret into the hole and cover it up with mud. That way, nobody else would ever learn the secret..."

"Our cabin attendants are superbly designed... But there's only one problem : when they've served on so many long journeys, fatigue begins to set it. For example, they might want to laugh, but the smile would be slow to come. They might want to cry, but the tear wouldn't well up till the next day..."

"Let's see each other again. Then, if you think we shouldn't be together, tell me so frankly... That day, six years ago, a rainbow appeared in my heart. It's still there, like a flame burning inside me. But what are your real feelings for me? Are they like a rainbow after the rain? Or did that rainbow fade away long ago?..."

"Why can't it be like before? Please don't go. Stay with me tonight. Let me borrow you."

"I once fell in love with someone. After a while she was gone. I couldn't stop wondering if she loved me or not. I went to 2046 hoping to find her there. But I never found her."