The good old days are now.
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question....
Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars.
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
If you don't write it down, it never happened.Cathy (& Jack) Ryan
One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat ar...
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
We wait. No sense spooking him. We let him come in nice and close while we do our famous imitation of a hole in the water,
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.