In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

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

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near Nassau, seizing gunpowder and supplies. Later, during the Revolutionary War, Marines fought several engagements in their distinctive green coats, such as helping George Washington to cross the Delaware River, and assisting John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard to capture the British frigate Serapis during their famous sea fight.

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

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.