Dalton Trumbo

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

I fought fire with oil.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.