Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

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

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

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

For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.