112 Quotes by Nelson DeMille

Well, sonny, in my country, gun control means using both hands.

Confrontational is when I pull my gun. Argumentative is when I pull the trigger.

Trying to improve on anthrax is like trying to improve on gunpowder. Anthrax is easy to propagate, easy to handle, it diffuses nicely into the air, kills slowly enough for the infected population to spread it around, and cripples as many victims as it kills, causing a collapse of the enemy’s health care system.

It’s a problem, you know, Paul, dealing with stupid people. You project your own intelligence and rationality onto a person who is a complete idiot, and he lets you down.

They brought with them seventeen American POWs who were secretly imprisoned in Villa Marista for advanced experiments with drugs.” It was hard to imagine being taken prisoner in Vietnam, tortured there, then being shipped to Cuba for more of the same.

Anyway, I’m getting really intolerant of liars, fools, blowhards, and power freaks.

As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location.

The short-timers, who’d gone through hell without even a small pee in their pants, were all jittery that something was going to happen before they boarded the freedom bird home. I mean, after you’ve cheated death for so long, you become paranoid, sure that death had just remembered you were leaving.

The way to a woman’s heart is through her funny bone. Women like men who make them laugh. I think.