The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.

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

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.