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

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.