He was a relieved man; he was an angry man.
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...
Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.
I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it. [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]
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...
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.
I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?
Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.
Operations, room five, in twenty minutes.
You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.
Did not the Christians incessantly talk about walking into the arms of Christ for the causes of Christ, calling for wars in his name?
Du Lac?
Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain
Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.
I get annoyed when a self-indulgent writer just shows off what he knows but doesn't really tell a story. To me storytelling is first a craft. Then if you're lucky, it becomes an art form. But first, i...
You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.
It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.
He may be a scholar, but he’s first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.
Will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all