"One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work."
- Tom Clancy
"The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place."
"I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the m..."
"The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; onl..."
"Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires..."
"I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story."
"Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars."
"He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius."
"The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read"
"Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin a..."