To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

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

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.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.