"In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."

“If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.”

“A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.”

“I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.”

“One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.”

Source : "Alex Gansa walks us through Homeland's first season (Part 2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2012.

“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”

“I think that's the job of the writer, right? Not to introduce new ideas or feelings, but to name the ones we know most intimately but are afraid of speaking, or don't have the words. That's what I find most powerful anyway.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.”

“Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.”