Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

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.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

I will make great deals with China and they will like us more than they do now. You know they don't even like us.

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

I will never ever support a people swap where you can send a 13 year old child, unaccompanied to a country without supervision. Never, it'll be over my dead body. How dare they.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.