My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

Politics always change. Stories never do.

What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer.