I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple, tell the damned story.

What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.

Confusion is the ally of the prepared.

If you’re really good, they’d taught him at Quantico, you don’t have to be arrogant.

History admires the wise, but it elevates the brave. – EDMUND MORRIS.

It was the oddest of political prejudices that wealth didn’t come from work, but rather from something else, a something never really described, but always implied to be suspect.

Reporters called down every other profession – medicine, law, politics – for failing to meet a level of professional responsibility which they would allow no one to enforce on themselves, and which they themselves would too rarely enforce on their own. Do as I say, not as I do was something you couldn’t say to a six-year-old, but it had become a ready cant for grown-ups. And if it got any worse, then what?

A commander’s pride got his soldiers dead.

The first step in accomplishing any goal was deciding that it was possible.