In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.
If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.
The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.
A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.
When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.
America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.
Surviving is much more painful than death.
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.
I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.
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