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The good old days are now.
Success will ruin your life.
Wars are begun by frightened men.
I don't discuss works in progress.
My life is a very simple life thank you
The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.
Surviving is much more painful than death.
We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.
What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.
Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.
Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
An overnight success is ten years in the making.
Most things in here don't react well to bullets.
When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl
The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.
The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.
The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.
If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.
A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.
All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.
Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.
Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.
Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.
That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth
The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.