The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.