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.
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
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 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.
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.
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.
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.
The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.
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.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
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.
I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew different parts of the whole story, but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.
My life is a very simple life thank you
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
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.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.
What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.
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