Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.