Quotes from Tom Clancy

There were three repeat pips on his Vietnam service ribbon.

He'd just completed a speed run

million dollars, to be paid in a

we're proceeding on the assumption that the operation initiated in America.

Sir didn't mean anything, Kelly knew. When in doubt, a Marine would call a lightpole

Sir didn't mean anything, Kelly knew. When in doubt, a Marine would call a lightpole "Sir." He

You hear rushing air. If you penetrate the hull at deep depth, the sudden pressure change inside the hull supposedly causes the air to ignite and everyone inside the boat incinerates. I

But it sure gets hot here in the summer, pal.

You are never satisfied, Comrade Captain. I suppose it is men like you who force progress upon us all.

humble rabbit, cornered by a fox, has nothing to lose by striking out, and rabbits have teeth, and sometimes the rabbit gets lucky.

And yet society had learned to accept the fact that it wasn't this way for many. This area was so different from his area of operations, and the privileges these kids enjoyed ought not to be privileges at all, for how could a child grow to proper adulthood without an environment like this? Those were dangerous thoughts, Kelly told himself. The logical conclusion was to try to change the whole world, and that was beyond his capacity, he thought

It was scary, and it was lonely, but it was home for Sergeant Chavez.

The judgment of history was ultimately less important than what he'd judge of himself, looking in the mirror every morning at not enough. The real prison was, and would always be, himself.

Quién es Samad?

As a result, no nation-state today dared even to contemplate an attack on America.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did.

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.