Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
“I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.”
“You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.”