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.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew different parts of the whole story, but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.