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

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

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.

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