Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp).

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet..

If you're not busy living, you're dying..

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read..

just let Mitch be Mitch.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt..

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse..

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp.

I just look at what's going on in the world..

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense..

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (H….

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of ….

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my ….

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses….

No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago is eerily similar….

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov).

Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy….

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going ….

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation..

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig..