The Mentalist, Season 4

Bret Stiles:
Farragut was a dreamer. Dreamers are useful in their way, but we don't live in dreams, do we? We live in the here and the now.

Van Pelt:
Did you kill him?

Stiles:
You've killed, haven't you; someone who mattered to you, who hurt you. Did you enjoy it?

Van Pelt:
No.

Stiles:
Really? I'm told it gives the feeling of great perspective, like waking from a dream.

Van Pelt:
It changes you.

Stiles:
Did you friends notice?

Van Pelt:
A little, but I think it freaks them out.

Stiles:
Of course. They don't have the imagination or the vocabulary to converse with you about it. You know, you're like a little bird that fell out of the nest, but you don't need the nest. You need to fly, and that I can teach you.