316 Quotes by Tom Clancy

If you don't write it down, it never happened.Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

If the First Toddler wears it, it has to be fashionable.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

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

One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

not a very nice place is it?" rosen asked as they came back for the last load."they say there's a hundred different kinds of snake there. ninety-nine are poisonous.""and the other one?"kelly handed a carton over to the doctor. "that one eats your ass whole.