The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed.
Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.
Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General...
I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it. [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]
Operations, room five, in twenty minutes.
Warmed by the cold sea around him.
Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.
Will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all
Two people were not one,
I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?
I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.
Without preamble.
What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.
It’s an insoluble dilemma, really. Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office. However, a long-range intelligence strategy doesn’t change, not on...
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain
Du Lac?
Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.
I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.
He may be a scholar, but he’s first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.
Did not the Christians incessantly talk about walking into the arms of Christ for the causes of Christ, calling for wars in his name?