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" Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right. "

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

" Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them. "

" I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. "

" 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. "

" The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. "

" I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? "

" Wars are begun by frightened men. "

" No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. "

" Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. "

" The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood. "

" There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives. "

" The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality. "

" Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us. "

" Success will ruin your life. "

" The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets. "

" America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information. "

" People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad? "

" Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. "

" Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act. "

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

" The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. "

" Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. "

" I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. "

" Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that. "

" 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. "

" The good old days are now. "

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

" Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob. "

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

" Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? "