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.

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

About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

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.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.