Tom Clancy Quotations | Page 2

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

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

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

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

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

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

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