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

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

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

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.