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.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

Success will ruin your life.

The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.