"When you sign up for a TV show, you don't know if it's going to be for a pilot or for the rest of your life, so I wanted to play a character that I enjoyed thoroughly, and there weren't that many of them out there."

“It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”

Source : Emile Zola (2001). “Truth”

“Failed the bright promise of your early day?”

“Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.”

Source : "The Demon's Passage" by Greg Egan, eidolon.net. July 1991.

“The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.”

Source : Teresa De Lauretis (1984). “Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema”, p.119, Indiana University Press

“Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.”

“From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.”

“I'm not a joiner. I don't like organizations.”

“Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.”