People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.

Lies have always been easier to invent than reality.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.

A man who is too afraid to admit his fears is a man who won’t overcome them.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

Im a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.