Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.

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.

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

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