Quotes by Tom Clancy

“Ive made up stuff thats turned out to be real, thats the spooky part.”

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”

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

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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 you dont write it down, then it never happened

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

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

If you dont write it down, it never happened.Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldnt allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had to be followed up on as potential espionage cues. Russians, on the other hand, were too orderly by nature to make such distractions appear natural.

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

It wasnt an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didnt know.

A commanders pride got his soldiers dead.