Top 40 Quotes by Tom Clancy

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.

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

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

The good old days are now.

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.

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

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.

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.

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