When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

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.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?